Comment by dundarious

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.