Comment by dundarious
2 months ago
Run git show on any commit object, or look at the default output of git log, and you'll see the same. Your author name and email are always public. If you want, use a specific public address for those purposes.
2 months ago
Run git show on any commit object, or look at the default output of git log, and you'll see the same. Your author name and email are always public. If you want, use a specific public address for those purposes.
That is demonatratively not true on github and gitlab, both having the ability to set an email alias which redirects the messages to your real email without revealing it.
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/how-tos/email...
I don't think you necessarily disagree with that I'm saying.
1. git commits record an author name and email
2. github/gitlab offer an email relay so you can choose to configure your git client (and any browser-based commits you generate) to record that as the email address
3. github/gitlab do not rewrite your pushed commits to "sanitize" any "private" email addresses
4. the .patch suffix "trick" just shows what was recorded in the commit
When I said
> If you want, use a specific public address for those purposes.
that includes using the github/gitlab relay address -- but make sure to actually change your gitconfig, you can't just configure it on the web and be done.