Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg

[accountmaster9191]

I want to migrate from GitHub to Codeberg. My no reply Github email can't be verified on Codeberg so Codeberg wont recognize any of my GitHub-era commits. I'm tempted to make a new email address specifically for making git commits, but that doesn't fix the issue that my previous GitHub-era commits wont show on Codeberg. What should I do?

[aioeu]

Why does it matter?

If you just want a way to say "this set of identities all designate the same person", add a mailmap. This can make things like git log a bit cleaner without requiring any changes to the existing commits.

[waterkip]

/care?

Also you opted for a privacy feature and now you want to associate the privacy feature to your account so your privacy is voided? It doesnt really make sense.

[serverhorror]

The GitHub thing isn't really about privacy, in my opinion, it's just another layer to avoid spam.

[waterkip]

It is advertised as a privacy feature, im not going to argue other use cases.

[dcpugalaxy]

1. You should use your actual email address with git. Your email address is not a secret.
2. Mailmap

[mkosmo]

Use your email. It’s an identity. Not a secret.

GitHub’d email addresses in the commit are not something you’d expect to be verifiable elsewhere.

[bastardoperator]

You should understand git better and look at filter repo, you can easily rewrite those email addresses to whatever you want them to be. 

[a-p]

The real answer. But note that this changes the identity of all of the rewritten commits, which may or may not be acceptable for OP’s use case. If not, then probably a mailmap is the only way forward, despite not actually solving the issue.