I think this brings up a good point, not just regarding git, but also in general. I noticed something similar also for my dotfiles. My emacs config has my full

I think this brings up a good point, not just regarding git, but also in general. I noticed something similar also for my dotfiles. My emacs config has my full name and email address (whereas the email address also includes the full name, again) in it (whereas my git commits use another, less directly connected name). It doesn't really have to do with excessive paranoia (and by all means, it's not that hard to get to a full name from either address), but these are the small places where I tend to forget that information will (or: would) thus ultimately end up in public.