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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. |
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Ownership continuity |
We recommend inviting another {% data variables.product.company_short %} 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 "AUTOTITLE."
To request access to manage repositories as a successor, please contact us through the {% data variables.contact.contact_support_portal %}.
The person you invite to be your successor must have a {% data variables.product.company_short %} account.
{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %} {% data reusables.user-settings.account_settings %}
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Under "Successor settings", to invite a successor, begin typing a username, full name, or email address, then click their name when it appears.
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Click Add successor. {% data reusables.user-settings.sudo-mode-popup %}
The user you've invited will be listed as "Pending" until they agree to become your successor.