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Managing access to your personal repositories

You can give people collaborator access to repositories owned by your personal account.

Who can use this feature?

If you're using GitHub Free, you can add unlimited collaborators on public and private repositories.

Inviting collaborators to a personal repository

You can invite users to become collaborators to your personal repository.

Removing a collaborator from a personal repository

When you remove a collaborator from your project, they lose read/write access to your repository. If the repository is private and the person has created a fork, then that fork is also deleted.

Removing yourself from a collaborator's repository

If you no longer want to be a collaborator on someone else's repository, you can remove yourself.

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.