User account


Signing in


User profile


On your profile page, you will see the following information:

  • Personal information
  • Groups: groups you're a member of
  • Contributed projects: projects you contributed to
  • Snippets: your personal code snippets

Profile settings


From there, you can:

Changing your username


To change your username:

  1. Navigate to your profile's Settings > Account.
  2. Enter a new username under "Change username".
  3. Hit Update username.



Private profile

The following information will be hidden from the user profile page ( if this feature is enabled:

  • Atom feed
  • Date when account is created
  • Activity tab
  • Groups tab
  • Contributed projects tab
  • Personal projects tab
  • Snippets tab

To enable private profile:

  1. Navigate to your personal profile settings.
  2. Check the "Private profile" option.
  3. Hit Update profile settings.

NOTE: Note: You and GitLab admins can see your the abovementioned information on your profile even if it is private.

Add details of external accounts

GitLab allows you to add links to certain other external accounts you might have, like Skype and Twitter. They can help other users connect with you on other platforms.

To add links to other accounts:

  1. Navigate to your User Settings > Profile.
  2. In the Main settings section, locate and fill out fields for links to external accounts like Skype and Twitter.
  3. Click the Update profile settings button.

Private contributions

Introduced in GitLab 11.3.

Enabling private contributions will include contributions to private projects, in the user contribution calendar graph and user recent activity.

To enable private contributions:

  1. Navigate to your personal profile settings.
  2. Check the "Private contributions" option.
  3. Hit Update profile settings.

Current status

Introduced in GitLab 11.2.

You can provide a custom status message for your user profile along with an emoji that describes it. This may be helpful when you are out of office or otherwise not available. Other users can then take your status into consideration when responding to your issues or assigning work to you. Please be aware that your status is publicly visible even if your profile is private.

To set your current status:

  1. Open the user menu in the top-right corner of the navigation bar.
  2. Hit Set status, or Edit status if you have already set a status.
  3. Set the emoji and/or status message to your liking.
  4. Hit Set status. Alternatively, you can also hit Remove status to remove your user status entirely.


  1. Navigate to your personal profile settings.
  2. In the text field below Your status, enter your status message.
  3. Select an emoji from the dropdown if you like.
  4. Hit Update profile settings.

Status messages are restricted to 100 characters of plain text. They may however contain emoji codes such as I'm on vacation :palm_tree:.

You can also set your current status using the API.

Commit email

Introduced in GitLab 11.4.

A commit email, is the email that will be displayed in every Git-related action done through the GitLab interface.

You are able to select from the list of your own verified emails which email you want to use as the commit email.

To change it:

  2. Hit Commit email selection box.
  3. Select any of the verified emails.
  4. Hit Update profile settings.

Private commit email

Introduced in GitLab 11.5.

GitLab provides the user with an automatically generated private commit email option, which allows the user to not make their email information public.

To enable this option:

  2. Hit Commit email selection box.
  3. Select Use a private email option.
  4. Hit Update profile settings.

Once this option is enabled, every Git-related action will be performed using the private commit email.

In order to stay fully annonymous, you can also copy this private commit email and configure it on your local machine using the following command:

git config --global "YOUR_PRIVATE_COMMIT_EMAIL"


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