Account and profile documentation
Make GitHub work best for you by customizing your personal account settings and personalizing your profile page.
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Account
Get started with your GitHub account.
Profile
Get started with your GitHub profile.
Quickstart for your personal dashboard
Your personal dashboard helps you track issues and pull requests, find your top repositories and teams, stay up-to-date with organizations and repositories you're subscribed to, and explore recommended repositories.
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Participate in organizations
About organization membership
You can become a member of an organization to collaborate with coworkers or open-source contributors across many repositories at once.
Customize your profile
About your profile
Your GitHub profile showcases your work, contributions, and information you choose to share publicly.
Participate in organizations
Accessing an organization
To access an organization that you're a member of, you must sign in to your personal account.
Set up your account
Account
Get started with your GitHub account.
Manage your email
Adding an email address to your GitHub account
You can add multiple email addresses to your GitHub account to manage commits and notifications.
Manage your email
Changing your primary email address
To change your primary email address, you'll add a new email, then delete the old one.
Change or close your account
Changing your username
Change your GitHub username.
Track your contributions
Contributions on your profile
Your profile shows off your pinned repositories, Achievements, and a graph of your repository contributions over the past year.
Change or close your account
Deleting your personal account
You can delete your personal account on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance at any time.
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