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Full name on contributors list in repository #22135

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The screenshot looks like the name is one GitHub got from the commit log. When you make a git commit, git includes an author name and email address in the commit. This will be visible to anyone who clones the repository, so if your repository is public it’s effectively public, even though in the web interface GitHub replaces the name with the username if the mail address belongs to a user account.

You can set the name and email address to use using the user.name and user user.email options, for example if you’d like to use a nickname for the current repository only (add --global to make it the default for all your repositories):

git config user.name "Your Nickname"

GitHub also offers a w…

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