Re: user name

From: Dennis Powless <claven123@gmail.com>
Date: May 22, 2018, 14:09 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGC=61KTRt9v=RX+o2OWjj30kNG25pTLQW_xqyo5iMXJ4XYUqA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD0MDwtTmE=VUcUrGUzryJPLpBsUqeHgun3PwJHU1f2Tiw@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the info, yes your are correct it was for the git config not github. I'm brand new to this and wasn't sure if a real name was required vs just a username. I know is some cases official names are required and didn't want to use the wrong one to start out with. I'm reading the help files/information currently and one of the first steps was to set this up.

I'll set up github separately.

Thanks for the info!

Dennis

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it customary to use your real name or a user name when registering to GIT?
>
> I guess you are talking about using `git config --global user.name
> "XXX YYY"`. (Though maybe you are talking about github.com
> registration, but in this case you should not have sent this request
> to this mailing list.)
>
> When you use git config as described above, this is not a real
> registration. You just configure Git on your machine (only your
> ~/.gitconfig is changed), so that Git knows what to put in the
> "author" field of the commits you create.
>
> You are free to use whatever you want but some projects might ask
> contributors to put their real name in the author fields of the
> commits (and sometimes in other places too, like in the
> "Signed-off-by" in the commit messages).