GitHub may collect IP addresses, but normal repository owners do not see every visitor IP
GitHub’s General Privacy Statement says it automatically collects service usage information, including IP address, device information, session details, request date and time, operating system and application version, contribution-related information, and performance information. That is GitHub’s internal service logging and privacy-policy scope.
What a repository maintainer can usually see
A repository maintainer can see public GitHub activity such as issues, pull requests, commits, stars, forks and visible contributors. Git commit metadata contains author name and email configured in Git, plus commit time, but it does not publish a visitor’s IP address just because the person opened the repository page.
GitHub’s repository traffic page is also aggregated: people with push access can see views, unique visitors, clones, referring sites and popular content for recent traffic, not a raw list of visitor IP addresses.
If a repository README links to an external website, that external website may collect its own web server logs when someone clicks through. For example, a link such as IPTV28 would be handled by that destination site after the click. That is different from GitHub showing repository visitor IP logs to the repository owner.
Organization audit logs are a separate permission model
GitHub’s documentation for organization audit logs says organization owners can review actions performed by members. IP visibility is a separate feature: GitHub’s source IP disclosure page says source IP addresses are not displayed by default, and the public-preview option applies only to events that meet specific criteria. That is not the same as giving every public repository owner a raw list of anonymous visitor IPs.
When IP logs can matter
IP address logs can matter for security investigations, abuse handling and legal process. GitHub’s legal request guidelines say GitHub will not disclose location-tracking data such as IP address logs without a valid court order or search warrant. In short: GitHub may collect IP-related service data, but ordinary repository authors should not assume they can identify every reader’s IP address from GitHub’s normal repository interface.
