Unrecognized author in commits

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#1

My commits are not linked to my Github account for some reason. I have set my e-mail in the git config to the primary email that is associated with my Github account, which should be the solution to this problem according to [this page](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/committing-changes-to-your-project/why-are-my-commits-linked-to-the-wrong-user#:~:text=Unrecognized%20author%20(no%20email%20address,to%20link%20your%20future%20commits.)

But this is not the source for the problem. This is what I currently get for my commits:

Edit: For some reason this doesnt link to the actual commit.

I did choose to ‘keep my email adress private’, but I doubt that’s related to the problem. Unfortunately I cannot find a possible solution in the Github help pages. Can anybody here maybe help?

Edit: When I look at git log there is no email associated to my commits.

Author: b-naber <bn @MacBook-Pro-42.fritz.box>
Date: Sat Nov 21 15:44:06 2020 +0100

But this is my gitconfig file:

[user]
name = b-naber
mail = Same-email-as-in-github-account
[credential]
helper = osxkeychain

#2

Setting the email address in git config does not change already existing commits. To do that you have to update the existing commits, either manually by using git rebase -i and editing the affected commits, or with git filter-branch. Both approaches are described here:

Note that if you use the manual approach (with rebase and git commit --amend) you’ll need to also use --author or --reset-author to actually change the author data.

#3

Thanks a lot for your answer. For some reason using git config or editing the .gitconfig file did not change the email address, even in commits that were made after the e-mail address was changed. However, setting environment variables did solve the problem:

GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=your_email@abc.com GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=your_email@abc.com

#4

That sounds like the email setting is overridden somewhere else. You can check in which files it is set by running the following command in your repository:

git config --show-origin user.email

If all of that looks correct, the only other thing I could think of is checking if GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL might already be set in your environment.

#5

I get no output when I run that command. I assume that means the user.email was never set?! Then why do I still have an email address set in gitconfig and why doesn’t running git config --global user.email my email yield to output of the --show-origin command later? This is kind of weird behaviour… but it works now using the environment variables. Thanks for your help.

#6

It’s really odd that the setting doesn’t stick, I’ve never encountered that before. You could try describing the setup you’re using, maybe someone else who’s using a similar one has an idea.