Prepare for job change

If you use your GitHub account for both personal and work purposes, there are steps to follow when you leave your company or organization.

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Update your personal account information

  1. Unverify your company email address by deleting it in your Email settings.

    After removal, you can re-add this email without verifying to keep any associated commits linked to your account.

    For more information, see Cambiar tu dirección principal de correo electrónico.

  2. Change your primary email address from your company email to your personal email.

    For more information, see Cambiar tu dirección principal de correo electrónico.

  3. Verify your new primary email address.

    For more information, see Verificar tu dirección de correo electrónico.

  4. Update your GitHub username if it contains references to your company or organization.

    For more information, see Cambios de nombre de usuario.

  5. Review and update your two-factor authentication (2FA) methods to ensure they aren't linked to company resources:

    • If you use a TOTP app on a company phone, transfer it to your personal device.
    • If you've registered company-owned security keys, remove them and add personal ones instead.
    • If you're using GitHub Mobile on a company device, install it on your personal device.
    • Download fresh recovery codes and store them in a personal secure location.

    For more information, see Configurar la autenticación de dos factores.

Leave organization memberships

Nota:

Unless you're using a cuenta de usuario administrada, you'll still be able to access your personal account after leaving an organization.

  1. If you're the organization owner, transfer ownership to another person before removing yourself.

    For more information, see Transferir la propiedad de la organización.

  2. Remove yourself from the organization.

    For more information, see Eliminarte de una organización.

Clean up professional repository associations

  1. Remove yourself as a collaborator from repositories owned by others.

    For more information, see Eliminarte del repositorio de un colaborador.

  2. Stop watching work-related repositories to avoid unnecessary notifications.

    To manage your watched repositories, visit https://github.com/watching.

  3. Transfer repositories that you own that others may need to continue working on.

    For more information, see Transferir un repositorio.

  4. Delete any work-related forks that belong to you.

    Deleting a fork doesn't delete the upstream repository.

    For more information, see Eliminar un repositorio.

  5. Delete local copies of your work repositories from your computer by running the following command:

    rm -rf WORK_DIRECTORY

    Replace WORK_DIRECTORY with the path to your work repository.