user name

user name

[Dennis Powless]

Is it customary to use your real name or a user name when registering to GIT?

Dennis

Re: user name

[Christian Couder]

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

[Dennis Powless]

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:
> 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).