[6thbit]

I wish github could ammend the email of my commits to the private noreply address during push so they _never_ have any other email associated to them. May not be feasible due to the commit changing, confusing local branch and such?

They have this other thing where they reject pushes for the 'known' emails you've told them you have, but kinda seems there should be a setting to do that for any email that is not your noreply private one. is that a feasible thing to ask for?

[cperciva]

If you change the email address, you change the commit hash. And yes, suddenly your local branches are orphaned.

Of course, there's nothing stopping you from using a git-only email address (nospam-6thbit@yourdomain) and routing that to /dev/null. GitHub can't change email addresses, but you can.

[arcfour]

They literally have a setting to block pushes with any email other than the noreply one, lol.

[6thbit]

You'd think so, but no!

They only do that if you set up that specific email on your account. Not if its 'any email other than the noreply one'.

> When you push to GitHub, we’ll check the most recent commit. If the author email on that commit is a private email on your GitHub account, we will block the push and warn you about exposing your private email.

Perhaps my usecase is niche, but I sometimes work with other git servers from the same machine with different emails and I don't want to set up all those on GH. Global settings don't help here, per-repo settings help but this doesn't come along when you clone a new one.