I thought Mr Bernhardt was technical enough to know that pushing commits onto a public web server made those commits and their metadata public information. I get that you don't care for spam, but they used information you published.
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
#22GitHub supports noreply emails from git cli. Configure it so you don't pwn yourself!
https://github.blog/2017-04-11-private-emails-now-more-priva...
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#23One of the things I hate about Git is that it requires an email address. It doesn't let you just leave a blank value, it needs something that resembles an email address. I get that email is how the kernel-devs do it. But IMO it's inappropriate for the version-control software to link a particular communication mechanism. Sure you can use a fake email address, and many of us do. Finally github has a feature to use the…
git config --global user.email no@email.invalid
Or, just edit your .gitconfig by hand after adding an email and change the value there to whatever you want.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#24Why is this a big deal? Of course recruiters search public information. Learn to live with it. If your outrage threshold is this low then you’re going to spent all your life in a state of outrage. It’s nit even interesting let alone important. Information in github, far from being surrounded by an invisible force field of integrity protection, is actually prime hunting territory for recruiters and any recruiter who d…
Thanks for typing this out.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#25Emails in git commit logs are not a secret, which I wish more people understood and acknowledged. In general I don't think that expecting your email address to be private is reasonable. If you collaborate with others online, they should be able to get in touch. Stuff like this is an unfortunate consequence, but a manageable problem imo.
Email addresses in general are not supposed to be a secret. They’re supposed to be for people to send you electronic mail. Remember when there used to be books that contained everyone’s phone number? If you’re a high profile person or are particularly guarding of your personal communication, I think it’s your responsibility to maintain separate public and private email addresses. You should only be making commits to…
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Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#26I think we're all going crazy. Seriously, we as a society must be running out of real problems. Enough internet for today.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#27To all people out there that say “you are making your email public by pushing it to github”, please remember that just because something is on the internet doesn’t give you absolutely any right to use it. That’s the big deal here.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#28Why is this a big deal? Of course recruiters search public information. Learn to live with it. If your outrage threshold is this low then you’re going to spent all your life in a state of outrage. It’s nit even interesting let alone important. Information in github, far from being surrounded by an invisible force field of integrity protection, is actually prime hunting territory for recruiters and any recruiter who d…
My first though after reading that a recruiter used GitHub API was "I wish I met a recruiter like that".
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#29Why is this a big deal? Of course recruiters search public information. Learn to live with it. If your outrage threshold is this low then you’re going to spent all your life in a state of outrage. It’s nit even interesting let alone important. Information in github, far from being surrounded by an invisible force field of integrity protection, is actually prime hunting territory for recruiters and any recruiter who d…
If I was hiring a recruiter, I would be hoping they could provide me with something more than an ability to spam developers.
It seems to me that most good developers would ignore such spam—I get so much of this noise that I pay it no attention whatsoever.
If this is the best recruiters can do, then they can apparently provide no real value to the process.
Re: A recruiter used the GitHub API to pull my email address out of Git commits
#30I thought Mr Bernhardt was technical enough to know that pushing commits onto a public web server made those commits and their metadata public information. I get that you don't care for spam, but they used information you published.
Just because it’s published on the internet doesn’t give you absolutely any right to use it. I don’t understand why people don’t get this...