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Github provides an email address for every user to obscure their real email address as well as filtering to reject commits that use your real email address. Unf

Github provides an email address for every user to obscure their real email address as well as filtering to reject commits that use your real email address. Unfortunately, you must opt in to use this. https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...

jart 5y ago
And it makes me so unhappy to see them polluting my commit logs. I won't work with people on open source and run their code on my computer unless I know who they are. Getting recruiter spam is a good problem to have.
- sodality2 5y ago
  >I won't work with people on open source and run their code on my computer unless I know who they are. I can make a free email very easily. Having a "real" gmail in the logs means nothing. >Getting recruiter spam is a good problem to have. Easy for you to say. Not everyone wants that. Sign up for your own recruiters then...
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- 0des 5y ago
  Maybe some day you reconsider. Some of us just don't want to be bothered but don't mind sharing. Check my other reply for context.
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- vvillena 5y ago
  Relying on the commit log email for checking someone's identity is probably a really bad idea. Public-key signed commits are the better tool for that.
- blueflow 5y ago
  In a world where activists launch shitstorms against you on twitter if they don't like something you do or say, there much reason to never go public with your real name. Its not even about what you do, worse, its what they believe you did. And this is a factor you cannot possibly control.
  - skinnymuch 5y ago
    Can you give some examples of this happening to “nobodies” in the sense of [internet] fame or clout? Also not if the media riled things up too. I’m sure this stuff happens but I’m not around the places people keep saying this happens (usually Twitter). I’ve only seen examples of people who were internet famous or some other reasons that wouldn’t overlap with a casual GitHub user.
    - jart 5y ago
      The thing they failed to mention is that when it does happen, it mostly comes from anonymous actors.
    - blueflow 5y ago
      Who: Other developers working on the same Linux distro. Targeting other developers or upstream maintainers by talking shit about them on twitter, probably also discord.
  - BlueTemplar 5y ago
    "Real" email doesn't have to mean real name.
    - blueflow 5y ago
      For self-hosted email, the domain might also give away your name as the registrant.
jotm 5y ago
It was enabled by default when I made an account (~1 year ago)
fouric 5y ago
> as well as filtering to reject commits that use your real email address This is both novel and incredibly useful to me. I know that I'm going to have to go through my old commits and do something awful like filter-branch in order to rewrite all of the email addresses, but this feature will at least make sure that I don't then accidentally push a commit with my real address again. Thank you!

jart 5y ago

And it makes me so unhappy to see them polluting my commit logs. I won't work with people on open source and run their code on my computer unless I know who they are. Getting recruiter spam is a good problem to have.

sodality2 5y ago
>I won't work with people on open source and run their code on my computer unless I know who they are. I can make a free email very easily. Having a "real" gmail in the logs means nothing. >Getting recruiter spam is a good problem to have. Easy for you to say. Not everyone wants that. Sign up for your own recruiters then...
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0des 5y ago
Maybe some day you reconsider. Some of us just don't want to be bothered but don't mind sharing. Check my other reply for context.
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vvillena 5y ago
Relying on the commit log email for checking someone's identity is probably a really bad idea. Public-key signed commits are the better tool for that.
blueflow 5y ago
In a world where activists launch shitstorms against you on twitter if they don't like something you do or say, there much reason to never go public with your real name. Its not even about what you do, worse, its what they believe you did. And this is a factor you cannot possibly control.
- skinnymuch 5y ago
  Can you give some examples of this happening to “nobodies” in the sense of [internet] fame or clout? Also not if the media riled things up too. I’m sure this stuff happens but I’m not around the places people keep saying this happens (usually Twitter). I’ve only seen examples of people who were internet famous or some other reasons that wouldn’t overlap with a casual GitHub user.
  - jart 5y ago
    The thing they failed to mention is that when it does happen, it mostly comes from anonymous actors.
  - blueflow 5y ago
    Who: Other developers working on the same Linux distro. Targeting other developers or upstream maintainers by talking shit about them on twitter, probably also discord.
- BlueTemplar 5y ago
  "Real" email doesn't have to mean real name.
  - blueflow 5y ago
    For self-hosted email, the domain might also give away your name as the registrant.

jotm 5y ago

It was enabled by default when I made an account (~1 year ago)

fouric 5y ago

> as well as filtering to reject commits that use your real email address This is both novel and incredibly useful to me. I know that I'm going to have to go through my old commits and do something awful like filter-branch in order to rewrite all of the email addresses, but this feature will at least make sure that I don't then accidentally push a commit with my real address again. Thank you!