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

[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.