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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About organization membership
You can become a member of an organization to collaborate with coworkers or open-source contributors across many repositories at once.
About your profile
Your GitHub profile showcases your work, contributions, and information you choose to share publicly.
Accessing an organization
To access an organization that you're a member of, you must sign in to your personal account.
Account
Get started with your GitHub account.
Adding an email address to your GitHub account
You can add multiple email addresses to your GitHub account to manage commits and notifications.
Blocking command line pushes that expose your personal email address
If you've chosen to keep your email address private when performing web-based operations, you can also choose to block command line pushes that may expose your personal email address.
Changing your primary email address
To change your primary email address, you'll add a new email, then delete the old one.
Changing your username
Change your GitHub username.
Contributions on your profile
Your profile shows off your pinned repositories, Achievements, and a graph of your repository contributions over the past year.
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