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Github could simply reject commits with email addresses not added to your account. As you need to verify every email you add to your account this problem would

• detaro 7y ago
  and be replaced by a bunch of other problems instead. E.g. no publishing of existing repos on Github if they happen to contain a commit with a non-linked address...
• jolmg 7y ago
  One wouldn't be able to upload an existing open source repo with loads of existing contributors. That seems to really go against Github's mission of being a universal, easy-access hub for open source git repositories.
• dragonwriter 7y ago
  > Github could simply reject commits with email addresses not added to your account. Sure, if GitHub wanted to completely abandon the decentralized nature of Git and be a completely centralized system. Which it would love to, I'm sure, but I don't think the user base is quite ready for them to completely shut off any repository with any commits not made by Github users, and posted to GitHub through the account of the user who made the commit, which is what you are suggesting.
• aaronmdjones 7y ago
  This would completely break you merging others' patches into your repository outside of GitHub (with git-am(1)).