GitHub Help

Types of notifications

GitHub Enterprise delivers two kinds of notifications:

• Participating notifications are those in which you're directly involved in a conversation. You'll automatically receive these notifications when:

  • Someone mentions you or a team you're a member of
  • You're assigned to an issue or pull request
  • Someone makes a comment in a conversation you're subscribed to
  • You open, comment on, or close an issue or pull request

• Watching notifications are those in which you're actively watching a repository, but aren't necessarily participating. You'll automatically receive these notifications for:

  • Opened issues and their comments
  • Opened pull requests and their comments
  • Comments on any commits
  • Published releases

Shared read state

If you read a notification email, it can automatically be marked as read in your web notifications on GitHub Enterprise as well. To enable the shared read state, you must allow viewing images from the no-reply email address configured by your site administrator.

Managing notification delivery methods

You can choose to receive notifications on your GitHub Enterprise instance, via email, or both. You can also choose which type of email updates you'd like to receive on conversations you're participating in or watching. For more information, see "Managing notification delivery methods."

Further reading

• "Listing watched repositories"
• "Watching repositories"
• "Unwatching repositories"
• "Subscribing to conversations"
• "Unsubscribing to conversations"