Tell HN: Find anyone's email by adding .patch to end of a Git commit URL

2 pointsradihuq4 comments

I just discovered that if you add .patch to the end of a git commit URL, you're able to find the email address associated with the commit. This concerns me. Is there a best practice for obfuscating your email on git commits?

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Wait until the OP finds out about `git log`.

You can have GitHub establish a proxy email for you - https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-yo...

Nice, thanks!

It's the COMMITTER_EMAIL and AUTHOR_EMAIL as configured, this is working as intended. If you don't want to add it to your commits, set it to something like "nobody@localhost".

Right, its concerning as I never realized this was a feature. Updating my info now!

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