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I just helped a friend to set up a Github account to collaborate on my project. His commits come through, but for some reason on the "Source" page of my repository next to his commit is only his name and not his username (with a link).
It seems strange, since Github obviously recognizes him (I added him to the list of collaborators etc.
Seems like a stupid question, but Google couldn't help.
Thanks!
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GitHub uses the email address in the commit header to link the commit to a GitHub user. If your commits are being linked to another user, or not linked to a user at all, you may need to change your local Git configuration settings, add an email address to your account email settings, or do both.
Git uses a username to associate commits with an identity. The Git username is not the same as your GitHub username.
Does your friend have the e-mail address he is using for his commits correctly set up as an alias in GitHub? Otherwise, how is GitHub to know who he is? Git itself only records the full name and the e-mail address and obviously not the GitHub username, since you can use Git perfectly fine without GitHub.
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Run this in Terminal:
git config --global user.name "your-github-username" git config --global user.email "your-github-email" If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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