I think that is a fair point.
On 6/18/20, 3:43 PM, "Jacob Barrett" <[email protected]> wrote:
Regardless of the email address issue, you can go to the commit and make
comments and @johndoe and they will get a notification.
-Jake
> On Jun 18, 2020, at 10:31 AM, Kirk Lund <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I guess my main point is that I don't like private emails in OSS commit
> messages.
>
> Author: John Doe <[email protected]>
>
> If there's a problem with a commit made by John Doe and he doesn't work
for
> Pivotal, then I have no idea how to contact him directly to discuss the
> commit. If I visit github.com/johndoe, there's no way to send a message to
> Mr. Doe. If Mr. Doe is a committer, then I know [email protected] exists.
>
> Is there really a privacy problem with having "[email protected]" in the
> commit message? Hiding it makes it very difficult for the rest of us in
the
> same community to contact that person which is why I don't like private
> emails.
>
> Are you getting lots of spam from git commits??
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 1:20 PM Nabarun Nag <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kirk,
>>
>> I think it is also now in the privacy setting in GitHub for anyone who
>> wants to keep emails private.
[https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fsettings%2Femails&data=02%7C01%7Chansonm%40vmware.com%7C65458f873bd24f38514908d813d90c57%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637281170244761838&sdata=Q0ar18fz6Hu51i1TyM1PEW92o6SbBY%2FBnYSJlIgiCXE%3D&reserved=0
:
>>
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]
>>
>> This setting is needed for web based git operations like squash merging
>> PRs etc.
>>
>> In GitHub:
>> "Keep my email addresses private
>> We’ll remove your public profile email and use
>> [email protected] when performing web-based Git
>> operations (e.g. edits and merges) and sending email on your behalf. If
you
>> want command line Git operations to use your private email you must set
>> your email in Git."
>>
>> Regards
>> Nabarun
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kirk Lund <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 1:12 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Setting your commit email address
>>
>> Please make sure you've setup your commit email address. It makes it much
>> easier to find out who committed something and how to contact them if
>> there's a problem.
>>
>> You typically use the following to set your email address globally in
git:
>>
>> $ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
>>
>> You can also setup different repos with different email addresses by
using:
>>
>> $ git config user.email "[email protected]"
>>
>> In the below example, it's much easier to follow up with the author of
the
>> 1st commit than the author of the 2nd commit:
>>
>> commit b1107d2e403404337c22830a4964eefc2490ef50
>> Author: John Doe <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tue Jun 16 12:25:30 2020 -0700
>>
>> GEODE-8888: add something new
>>
>> commit e159238175766b46cbb6fe1e3459aa2da68db756
>> Author: John Doe <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tue Jun 16 10:55:16 2020 -0700
>>
>> GEODE-9999: fix something bad
>>
>> For more info, see:
>>
>>
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>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kirk
>>
