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I want to change my account's user name on GitHub, but I can't find how to do it. Is this possible at all? To clarify, I'm not talking about the user.name parameter in a git repository, but the username of the actual GitHub account.

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Yes. It's possible, but only once. Go to Account Settings -> Account Admin -> Change your username -> I understand, I want to change my username

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Current link for the rename operation:
https://github.com/account/rename_box

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