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Adding an email address to your GitHub account

You can add multiple email addresses to your GitHub account to manage commits and notifications.

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.

  2. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Emails.

  3. In "Add email address", type your email address and click Add.

  4. If you'd like to associate the email address with your web-based Git operations, select it from the "Primary email address" dropdown menu.

    Screenshot of the "Email" settings page. Under "Primary email address," a dropdown menu, labeled with Octocat's email address, is outlined in orange.

Next steps

If you are having trouble adding an email address, see Troubleshooting adding an email.