Comment by lmz

4 years ago

Because the email is part of a Git commit (author and committer information) and your Github repo has public Git commits. "man git-commit" and search for "email" for details.

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Ansil849  4 years ago

Yes, I'm aware of how commits work, my point is that this kind of practice goes hand in hand with making it easy for spammers to harvest user emails.

  • fuzzy2  4 years ago

    You're barking up the wrong tree. It's Git, and nothing else, that is to blame. Should GitHub stop being a Git host?

    • Ansil849  4 years ago

      The problem is spammers harvesting emails. Git* makes harvesting emails ridiculously easy. Therefore some solutions are needed (e.g. using Github-assigned email address aliases instead of user-supplied email addresses).

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