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I'm confused about my GitHub username
I need to give it in a job application form.
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TL;DR: If the user with the username you want is inactive, report it to Github on his profile. It's part of their name squatting policy, and you'll probably receive feedback.
The GitHub Pages repository URL is always https://{userid}.github.io/{reponame} The GitHub Pages URL is based on the GitHub repo URL, and takes the format https://{userid}.github.io/{reponame} . The moment you use it, GitHub Pages will generate a website based on the contents of your repo.
The one displayed in the top right corner in GitHub is your GitHub username - this is the one you use to login to GitHub when you enter the site and when you commit over HTTPS, and the one that appears in the URLs of your GitHub repositories.
The one you create using git config is your Git username - this is the one that appears as the author of your commits when you do git log or git blame.
Since you can use Git outside of GitHub, those two usernames do not have to be the same.
Also, the GitHub username must be unique, but nothing forces uniqueness of Git usernames.
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