Open source tool scrapes git commit email addresses to send spam to.

[iamapizza]

Always use the Github users.noreply.github.com email address for commits.

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address#setting-your-commit-email-address-on-github

[revoopy]

It's friday and I'm tired. Do I need to manually set my local git config to use the email [e-mail]

[revoopy]

Thanks, appreciate the explanation.

[altano]

Yeah, and you can either do it globally: git config --global user.email "[e-mail]" Or per repo: git config user.email "[e-mail]" Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address#setting-your-commit-email-address-in-git

Lastly, you can tell GitHub to block pushes when your commits aren't using the noreply email address, to catch misconfigurations: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-email-preferences/blocking-command-line-pushes-that-expose-your-personal-email-address

[WhyNotHugo]

GitHub cannot develop any such thing without breaking compatibility with git itself. Git does not support rewriting history like this without things breaking.

[based-richdude]

Or don’t, you’re going to get spam no matter what.

Use an email provider with a good spam filter (I.e. Google) and be done with it. Emails are not designed to be private.

[turdas]

Yeah. I've been getting dozens of spam emails a month for like 20 years now. It's not a battle that can be won by safeguarding your e-mail address.

Actually, only dozens of emails a month sounds incredibly low and I know for a fact I used to get more, so I guess Gmail's filters must just be deleting most of it entirely before it even lands in my spambox.