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Managing organization settings

Organization administrators can change several settings, including the names of repositories that belong to the organization and Owners team membership. In addition, organization admins can delete the organization and all of its repositories.

Renaming an organization

If your project or company has changed names, you can update the name of your organization to match.

Transferring organization ownership

To make someone else the owner of an organization account, you must add a new owner and then remove yourself from the account.

Restricting repository creation in your organization

To protect your organization's data, you can configure permissions for creating repositories in your organization.

Setting permissions for deleting or transferring repositories

You can allow organization members with admin permissions to a repository to delete or transfer the repository, or limit the ability to delete or transfer repositories to organization owners only.

Restricting repository visibility changes in your organization

To protect your organization's data, you can configure permissions for changing repository visibility in your organization.

Allowing people to fork private repositories in your organization

Organization owners can allow or prevent the forking of any private repositories owned by your organization.

Deleting an organization account

When you delete an organization, all repositories, forks of private repositories, wikis, issues, pull requests, and Project or Organization Pages are deleted as well.

Converting an organization into a user

It's not possible to convert an organization into a personal user account, but you can create a new user account and transfer the organization's repositories to it.

Integrating Jira with your organization project board

You can integrate Jira Cloud with your organization account to scan commits and pull requests, creating relevant metadata and hyperlinks in any mentioned Jira issues.

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