My personal and work email send me to the same profile, but in the configuration there is only one email

[zurquk]

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Hello,

My enterprise began to use github as the repository management and I try to login in with my email and for some reason linked my work email to my personal profile, but when I went to the configuration shows only one email (different it depens of which email I use to login) and also my public profile changes depending of the email I use to enter, is so weird and it seems the accounts are merged or something like that but I didn't found any option to make them independent again.
And I'm afraid to try to "delete" the account of one of them but this remove all the work I had already pushed

Thanks

[MaheshR03]

GitHub allows one account to have multiple email addresses. If you've added both your personal and work email to the same GitHub account, then logging in with either will show the same (merged) account. this is normal. Alternatively, you may have accidentally created a second GitHub account. If you have two accounts, do not delete either account yet. Deleting an account will remove any private repositories and possibly access to organizations unless ownership is transferred. Instead, decide whether you want to Keep them separate (one for personal, one for work) or merge identities by adding both emails to a single GitHub account and using it for both purposes.

[MaheshR03]

Also use GitHub CLI to check which account you’re authenticated with:

gh auth status

[egonzcar]

It seems my account was removed from the Active Directory in some moment when the accounts were merged or similar, so weird, but it's already solve.
Thanks for the answer!

[MaheshR03]

great

[Claudia-Rocha-H]

What you're running into usually happens when your personal and work emails somehow get linked up to the same GitHub account, or maybe you've accidentally ended up with two separate accounts and are just getting them confused when you log in. Your public profile should really stick to one username, so if that's shifting, that's definitely the odd part. My top tip would be to first peek at your 'Emails' section in GitHub Settings to see all the linked addresses, and then try logging in with each email separately just to figure out if you've got one account or two. Big warning though don't delete anything just yet If it's still a tangled mess after that, honestly, your best bet is to just ping GitHub Support directly they can dive into your account details and help you sort it all out safely without losing anything

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[jfullstackdev]

I'm not so sure if an email can be reused with two GitHub Accounts because as far as I know, it can't, it will say "email already in use"

though I'm also not sure whether that's the case in an Enterprise account

but the one thing I look is your single device, with two GitHub Accounts, I had the same experience in the past and it was a conflict, the commits from the new test GitHub Account appeared in my personal existing account, and I learned it's because of the single global email/SSH key in the computer, so I had to delete the other test account