git - Error "Your push would publish a private email address"

Question

I'm very new to GitHub/VCS.

When I try to share my project on GitHub, I get the following error message.

    Can't finish GitHub sharing process
    Successfully created project 'myproject' on GitHub, but initial push failed:
    remote: error: GH007: Your push would publish a private email address.
    failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/me/myproject.git'

I've googled the error message and got no hits. I've also searched Stack?Exchange, but no cigar. How can I solve this issue?

Answer 1

When enabling the “Block command line pushes that expose my email” feature, you’ll also want to configure Git to use your no-reply email address. Don’t worry—this won’t affect your contribution graph. All commits will still be associated with your account.

1. Open Terminal.

2. Change the current working directory to the local repository where you want to configure the email address that you associate with your Git commits.

3. Find your GitHub noreply address in your GitHub's Personal Settings → Emails. It's mentioned in the description of the Keep my email address private checkbox. Usually, it starts with a unique identifier, plus your username.

4. Set an email address in Git. Use your GitHub-provided no-reply email address.

   • Setting your email address for every repository on your computer

     git config --global user.email "{ID}+{username}@users.noreply.github.com"
     

   • Setting your email address for a single repository

     git config user.email "{ID}+{username}@users.noreply.github.com"
     

5. Reset the author information on your last commit:

   git commit --amend --reset-author
   

   If you have multiple commits with your private e-mail address, see this answer.

6. Now you can push the commit with the noreply e-mail address, and future commits will have the noreply e-mail address as well.

   git push
   

Once you configure Git, commits will use your alternate “noreply” email address, and any pushes that don’t will be rejected.