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Maintaining ownership continuity of your personal account's repositories

You can invite someone to manage your user owned repositories if you are not able to.

About successors

We recommend inviting another GitHub user to be your successor, to manage your user owned repositories if you cannot. As a successor, they will have permission to:

  • Archive your public repositories.
  • Transfer your public repositories to their own user owned account.
  • Transfer your public repositories to an organization where they can create repositories.

Successors cannot log into your account.

An appointed successor can manage your public repositories after presenting a death certificate then waiting for 7 days or presenting an obituary then waiting for 21 days. For more information, see GitHub 사망 사용자 정책.

To request access to manage repositories as a successor, please contact us through the GitHub 지원 포털.

Inviting a successor

The person you invite to be your successor must have a GitHub account.

  1. GitHub의 페이지 오른쪽 상단에서 프로필 사진을 선택한 다음, 설정을 선택합니다.

  2. 왼쪽 사이드바에서 계정을 클릭합니다.

  3. Under "Successor settings", to invite a successor, begin typing a username, full name, or email address, then click their name when it appears.

    Screenshot of the "Successor settings" section. The string "octocat" is entered in a search field, and Octocat's profile is listed in a dropdown.

  4. Click Add successor.

  5. 메시지가 표시되면 GitHub에서 계정에 대한 액세스를 확인합니다. 자세한 내용은 sudo 모드을(를) 참조하세요.

The user you've invited will be listed as "Pending" until they agree to become your successor.