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How do I make my email visible on GitHub?
How do I publicly display my email on my GitHub profile? Yes. You should first add your email and verify it (under Settings>Emails). Then you should be able to select it in Settings>Profile in the “Public email” section.
Is GitHub GDPR compliant?
Over the last few months, we’ve gotten a few questions asking about our General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. We are proud to announce that we are compliant with the GDPR. GitHub doesn’t ask for more personal data from our users than we need to provide our services to you.
Does GitHub store IP addresses?
What information GitHub collects. Information such as a username and password, an email address, a real name, an Internet protocol (IP) address, and a photograph are examples of “User Personal Information.”
Can people see my GitHub email?
So the information is available to anyone with a copy of the repo, since it acts as an identifier. Your email probably won’t be visible to spambots, though, unless you use Gitweb, or a service like GitHub, to make your repo available through a web interface (merely putting it on the Internet doesn’t do this).
Are you allowed to scrape GitHub?
Researchers may scrape public, non-personal information from GitHub for research purposes, only if any publications resulting from that research are open access. Archivists may scrape GitHub for public data for archival purposes.
Where is my GitHub data stored?
GitHub is just a wrapper web service over Git technology. Just like any other version control system, Git stores your committed files under a directory on the server like github/users/username/repositoryname . Under this directory there are the most updated files which are exact copy of your local clone.
How do I make my GitHub private?
Under your repository name, click Settings. Under “Danger Zone”, to the right of to “Change repository visibility”, click Change visibility. Select a visibility. To verify that you’re changing the correct repository’s visibility, type the name of the repository you want to change the visibility of.
Can You Keep your email address private on GitHub?
Until today, all web-based GitHub Flow used your primary email address. This includes creating, editing, and deleting files, as well as merging pull requests. But now you can keep your email address private. To do so, visit your email settings page:
When does Git publicly expose my e-mail address?
Once you push your commits to a public repository on GitHub, the authorship metadata is published as well. If you’d like to ensure you don’t accidentally publish your email address, simply check the “Keep my email address private” and “Block command line pushes that expose my email” options in your email settings.
How to get email addresses of all members?
Using GraphQL API v4, you don’t have to call a request per user. The following will get members of an organization with their email (if provided in public profile) :
Is there way to obscurate email address on Git?
Arguably github, gitweb et al should have an option for obscuring email addresses just like mailing list archive viewers do. Older centralized version control systems use “username” for identifying author of a commit (of a change). Name + email is good identity; it doesn’t need to be real email though.