About deletion of your organization account
Deleting your organization account permanently removes all repositories, forks of private repositories, wikis, issues, pull requests, and project or organization pages. This action is irreversible.
If the account namespace includes any packages or container images stored in a GitHub Packages registry, GitHub deletes the packages and container images when you delete your account. By deleting your account, you may break projects that depend on these packages and images.
You can also archive an organization, instead of deleting it. Archiving an organization will make it read-only. For more information, see Archiving an organization.
Backing up your organization content
Before you delete your organization, make sure you have a copy of all repositories, wikis, issues, and projects from the account. See Backing up a repository.
Note
If necessary, a site administrator for your GitHub Enterprise Server instance may be able to partially restore a deleted organization. For more information, see Restoring a deleted organization.
Deleting your organization account
- In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.
- Next to the organization, click Settings.
- In the "Danger zone" section, click Delete this organization.
- Read the warning. If you want to proceed, type the organization's name, then click Cancel plan and delete the organization.