You can watch a repository to receive notifications for new pull requests and issues that are created. You can also unwatch a repository if you no longer want to receive notifications for that specific repository.

Watching all repositories that you have push access to

  1. Notification indicating any unread message
    In the upper-right corner of any page, click . If you've disabled web notifications and you don't see the bell icon, you can navigate to https://github.com/watching.

  2. Listing of watched repositories
    Click Watching.

  3. A checkbox for configuring watching repositories automatically
    On the right side of the page, select Automatically watch.

Watching a single repository

  1. On GitHub Enterprise, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Watch options in a drop-down menu for a repository
    In the upper-right corner, click Watching from the "Watch" drop-down menu.

Unwatching all repositories that you have push access to

  1. Notification indicating any unread message
    In the upper-right corner of any page, click . If you've disabled web notifications and you don't see the bell icon, you can navigate to https://github.com/watching.

  2. Listing of watched repositories
    Click Watching.

  3. A checkbox for configuring watching repositories automatically
    On the right side of the page, unselect Automatically watch.

Unwatching a single repository

  1. On GitHub Enterprise, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Watch options in a drop-down menu for a repository
    In the upper-right corner, click Unwatch from the "Watch" drop-down menu.

Note: You can also choose to ignore a repository. If you ignore a repository, you won't receive any notifications. We don't recommend ignoring repositories as you won't be notified if you're @mentioned.

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