Linking your GitHub Enterprise Server account to your personal GitHub.com account can allow you to leverage features that connect the two platforms, often through a feature called GitHub Connect.
To connect your profile on a GitHub Enterprise Server instance to your personal GitHub.com account, you typically follow these steps within your Enterprise Server settings:
- Access Settings: On your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, look for your profile photo in the upper-right corner of any page. Click on your profile photo.
- Navigate to Settings: From the dropdown menu that appears after clicking your profile photo, select Settings.
- Find GitHub Connect: In the left sidebar of your settings page, locate and click on the GitHub Connect option.
- Initiate Connection: On the GitHub Connect page, click the button that says Connect to GitHub.com.
- Review Access: You will be presented with information outlining the resources that your GitHub Enterprise Server instance will be able to access from your GitHub.com account as part of this connection. Carefully review these details.
- Authorize Connection: If you agree to the requested access, click the Authorize button to complete the linking process.
This process utilizes GitHub Connect, a feature that enables integration between GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub.com. Linking your accounts this way allows for various functionalities, such as unified search, contributing to repositories on both platforms with a single identity, and potentially other cross-platform features depending on how your Enterprise Server is configured.
Linking your identity can streamline workflows if you actively use both environments. Ensure you understand the permissions being granted during the authorization step.
