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Setting up and managing your GitHub user account
You can manage settings in your GitHub user account including email preferences, collaborator access for personal repositories, and organization memberships.
- Managing user account settings
- About your personal dashboard
- Managing your theme settings
- Changing your GitHub username
- Merging multiple user accounts
- Converting a user into an organization
- Deleting your user account
- Permission levels for a user account repository
- Permission levels for user-owned project boards
- Managing the default branch name for your repositories
- Managing security and analysis settings for your user account
- Managing access to your user account's project boards
- Best practices for leaving your company
- What does the 'Available for hire' checkbox do?
- Managing email preferences
- Adding an email address to your GitHub account
- Changing your primary email address
- Setting a backup email address
- Setting your commit email address
- Blocking command line pushes that expose your personal email address
- Remembering your GitHub username or email
- Types of emails GitHub sends
- Managing marketing emails from GitHub
- Managing access to your personal repositories
- Managing your membership in organizations
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