The different types of accounts on GitHub

GitHub offers three types of accounts: personal, organization, and enterprise. Each is different, but enterprise accounts cannot create repositories, unlike organization and personal accounts. Enterprise accounts are accounts that own organizations and can also own user accounts provisioned to their enterprise account via System for Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM) processes from their identity provider. A SCIM will automatically synchronize the users within your organization using your SSO platform user store, meaning it will deactivate accounts that have left your business.

Enterprise accounts act as governance accounts that allow you to implement policies over organizations and users directly associated with the enterprise account or indirectly via the organization accounts.

If we put enterprise accounts aside and look at only the organization and personal accounts, we’ll notice more synergies around repository ownership...