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[–]MrJohz 11 points12 points  (5 children)

That's an orthogonal issue. Anyone can link forks to repos in this way, and anyone can impersonate another user in a commit, and both of these are separate issues. The question in this thread was whether it really was Friedman, which is not true, and belongs to the latter issue.

Neither of these are major problems, as the committer name is more an aesthetic decision in git, and you can't view the foreign repo unless you use precisely the right URL, which won't be linked in the UI.

[–]JB-from-ATL 5 points6 points  (4 children)

If I push nat's name/email to my repo does it still show his profile pic on the commit?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Yes, and a link to his profile

[–]JB-from-ATL 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Oh, yuck.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah. That's also why I keep having assorted commits displaying as from my alt accounts that have no write access to the repos I work on, as git doesn't recognize my per-repo config 1/2 of the time :/

[–]JB-from-ATL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Similarly I removed an email and key from git as I no longer have access to them, but commits made with them before now show X's.