From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E0C1F51C for ; Tue, 22 May 2018 13:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751308AbeEVNpk (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2018 09:45:40 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f179.google.com ([209.85.223.179]:43945 "EHLO mail-io0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751199AbeEVNpk (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2018 09:45:40 -0400 Received: by mail-io0-f179.google.com with SMTP id t23-v6so18524018ioc.10 for ; Tue, 22 May 2018 06:45:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=f3izkwGV/QbJp0hbGibkOh3o5xutauqWGTlNm/4bkQA=; b=RzFRZdRv1MJfCubHocM+7hVFqoU1FVXSWsDpUh8QkBlLCtTUGkGZNk1RVGdWvbS9QL FNJiU0yJcRnPuCudbFGFCw/sXXFh6UY2+WObD6G1Yi5Ax9pXsFMe0SXzaPRbG39Wjo4m 1LXIzfQR77Id9vW5WHyPAjy7+MWBVNWKuZEW34B7CNERISu8ugaSpH8iqfdOE8m9nnGQ enZJRFJV6gVjT1188rKI5yPXUvzVU/DUkkXAM83BEt4LFoAzVkZ2uZCfvCP/wnBNCEBP kJWeXz8ZyUJhGy0R5tZCrfDhvSih5+V+mhSfK8w5++PLQ45S+pnccSvAUYPjt9sLYlol 4WSg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=f3izkwGV/QbJp0hbGibkOh3o5xutauqWGTlNm/4bkQA=; b=btCo3lIxJ35AczShkqi62OtqYNId3ZaOZpJZJfN1yJMQ1bXDpk97PhkdQIAgRsu6+A vt+V7F8d22q65Asp0jbhywNkZpPFBK6mYpXy+4RAhnyRtSf+CtEtD/ZXH0lpMT/lJUB5 x/owE+aMod3f8krZEvkaFRodLAuQb5jcMJ6H0KvntCcLYWtCoJe7WB2ZGrMRsOoeWN/D uyg9dNWy6PThrjtgclH6ICBrQMgbsBiH/t5VVvM7V74Vnj1tUqph0/JPATgpPc8oGhPU WWh3emBeSsf/Y5kkW/jOx6kNU4k+HyhfMKKsak5+WGaY9N9xf/omzTMNAZPChhTfmNWK 56ow== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwfeaAFY4FiRdXI05CO8X6MyeL1nXE9YgYjX3GbAAUMQ9HVQqBse 0Qdx/Zxyr4mxLbqY91o4CrTk6eAMn1t/4KzQTdC4Tw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZpvTO8MFGG4+OVoHJ6eMFoDYKNU0NAT2hWrRmOQfvMulaEhVnc3ryvoPeIjnO5oOIM60hQCh3fr4fSOtWflXaY= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:9690:: with SMTP id y138-v6mr24203204iod.272.1526996739306; Tue, 22 May 2018 06:45:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a4f:22db:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Tue, 22 May 2018 06:45:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Christian Couder Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 15:45:38 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: user name To: dpowless517@pobox.com Cc: git Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Dennis Powless 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).