Account Settings

Everything about managing your git.eu account and profile - starting with profile visibility, with more account settings topics added here over time.

Profile Visibility

Your profile page (found at your account's own URL on your instance) can be shown to everyone, shown without your identity, or hidden entirely. Public is the default.

• Public - the normal profile: your public repositories, display name, and join date are visible to anyone.
• Anonymous - a bare listing of your public repositories, with no display name, bio, or other identity information attached.
• Private - the profile page does not exist for anyone except you. Every other visitor sees the same 404 a nonexistent username would produce.

How to Change It

Step 1 - Open your profile settings

Go to your account's profile settings page.

Step 2 - Pick a level

Choose Public, Anonymous, or Private from the visibility option.

Step 3 - Save

Save the form. The new level applies immediately.

Repository Defaults

Your preferences page lets you set personal defaults applied when you create a new repository:

• Default branch name - the initial branch name pre-filled on the repository creation form.
• Default visibility - whether new repositories start out public or private.

These are only starting points. Each repository creation form still shows every field editable - you can change the branch name or visibility for any specific repository before creating it. A saved default never locks a repository's settings.

How to Change It

1. Go to your account's preferences page.
2. Under Repository defaults, pick a default branch name (or enter a custom one) and toggle

the default visibility.

1. Save each field. New defaults apply the next time you open the repository creation form.

File Lists

The File lists section of your preferences page has one toggle: Show the Git LFS badge in file lists. It is off by default.

When it is on, the file list of a repository (its home page and every folder) shows an LFS badge next to each file stored with Git LFS. The file page always shows that badge, whatever the setting. The setting is personal: visitors who are not signed in see the default.

How to Change It

1. Go to your account's preferences page.
2. Under File lists, switch the toggle on or off.
3. Save. The next file list you open uses the new setting.

Default Language

The Language section of your preferences page sets your default language. Two choices:

• Automatic (browser language) - the default. git.eu follows the language of your browser.
• A saved language (English or Français) - git.eu, docs.git.eu, and every email we send

you use it, whatever your browser language.

A saved language applies at once, and again each time you sign in. A new account starts with the language of the registration page.

The language switcher in the top bar changes the current session only. It never changes your saved default.

How to Change It

1. Go to your account's preferences page.
2. Under Language, pick Automatic (browser language) or a language.
3. Save. The page reloads in the new language when it changes.

Country

The Country section of your preferences page holds your country. It is private: it is used only for statistics about where git.eu users are, and it is never shown to anyone else.

When you sign up, git.eu guesses it once from the time zone of your browser, or, failing that, from the region of your browser language (for example fr-BE gives Belgium). No IP address is used. When neither gives a country, it stays Not set.

How to Change It

1. Go to your account's preferences page.
2. Under Country, pick a country, or Not set to clear it.
3. Save.