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Remembering your GitHub username or email Are you signing in to {% data variables.product.product_location %} for the first time in a while? If so, welcome back! If you can't remember your {% data variables.product.product_name %} user account name, you can try these methods for remembering it.
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{% mac %}

{% data variables.product.prodname_desktop %} users

  1. In the GitHub Desktop menu, click Preferences.
  2. In the Preferences window, verify the following:

{% endmac %}

{% windows %}

{% data variables.product.prodname_desktop %} users

  1. In the File menu, click Options.
  2. In the Options window, verify the following:

{% endwindows %}

Finding your username in your user.name configuration

During set up, you may have set your username in Git. If so, you can review the value of this configuration setting:

$ git config user.name
# View the setting
<em>YOUR_USERNAME</em>

Finding your username in the URL of remote repositories

If you have any local copies of personal repositories you have created or forked, you can check the URL of the remote repository.

{% tip %}

Tip: This method only works if you have an original repository or your own fork of someone else's repository. If you clone someone else's repository, their username will show instead of yours. Similarly, organization repositories will show the name of the organization instead of a particular user in the remote URL.

{% endtip %}

$ cd <em>YOUR_REPOSITORY</em>
# Change directories to the initialized Git repository
$ git remote -v
origin	https://{% data variables.command_line.codeblock %}/<em>YOUR_USERNAME</em>/<em>YOUR_REPOSITORY</em>.git (fetch)
origin	https://{% data variables.command_line.codeblock %}/<em>YOUR_USERNAME</em>/<em>YOUR_REPOSITORY</em>.git (push)

Your user name is what immediately follows the https://{% data variables.command_line.backticks %}/.

{% if currentVersion == "free-pro-team@latest" %}

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