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Deleting an organization account

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You can delete your organization account on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance at any time.

Who can use this feature

Organization owners can delete an organization.

About deletion of your organization account

Deleting your organization account removes all repositories, forks of private repositories, wikis, issues, pull requests, and project or organization pages.

If the account namespace includes any packages or container images stored in a GitHub Packages registry, GitHub deletes the packages and container images when you delete your account. By deleting your account, you may break projects that depend on these packages and images.

Backing up your organization content

Before you delete your organization, make sure you have a copy of all repositories, wikis, issues, and project boards from the account.

Note: If necessary, a site administrator for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance may be able to partially restore a deleted organization. For more information, see "Restoring a deleted organization."

Deleting your organization account

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your organizations" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.

  3. In the "Danger zone" section, click Delete this organization.

  4. Read the warning. If you want to proceed, type the organization's name, then click Cancel plan and delete the organization.