A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
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Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#2Eqrecruiters.com has been spamming emails I've used for git commits as well, trying to offer positions at Quizlet and Zume. I really don't appreciate that kind of spam.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#3If you put your email address out there, people will use it. Maybe github needs to do a better job of conveying what you’re making public when you push a commit, although as a service for programmers it may be reasonable to expect people to understand this already.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#4Why do you need the GitHub API for this? Can't you just clone the repository and log all the commit authors?
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#5If you put your email address out there, people will use it. Maybe github needs to do a better job of conveying what you’re making public when you push a commit, although as a service for programmers it may be reasonable to expect people to understand this already.
GitHub provides an option to use a special noreply address when creating your commits: https://help.github.com/en/articles/setting-your-commit-emai.... From the command line, well, I think it's not that difficult to see that your email address is going to be attached to it because it's right in the output of git log.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
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Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#7They've been doing this for years.
Back when I first created a GitHub profile, I started getting emails to an email that I don't usually give out. This eventually led me to GitHub after some mentioned seeing my profile which led to me improving my Git knowledge and finding out how they did it.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#8Why do you need the GitHub API for this? Can't you just clone the repository and log all the commit authors?
People on Twitter don’t know how git works, it seems.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#9You can do this from the browser.
View any commit of the user on GitHub and add ".patch" to the end of the URL. Done.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#10Eqrecruiters.com has been spamming emails I've used for git commits as well, trying to offer positions at Quizlet and Zume. I really don't appreciate that kind of spam.
Mark them as spam - at least on google it seems to learn pretty quickly and in a few days whoever is spamming is in my spam folder and then not even there (some spam seems to get blasted even from spam folder? Maybe they stop...)