Is it customary to use your real name or a user name when registering to GIT?
Dennis
Christian CouderRe: user name
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).
Re: user name
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).