Not going to help. Cloning some public repo will expose all emails you commited with anyway.
Keep Your GitHub Email Address Private
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Re: Keep Your GitHub Email Address Private
#22Anyone seriously worried about privacy should also ensure that their gravatar doesn't point to their real email address, especially if there's a simple relationship between the email addresss and GitHub username.
Edit: Apparently, this doesn't re-write the actual repo so anyone seriously interested in e-mail addresses will be unaffected. It was already easier to get e-mails via cloning rather than through scraping or the API.
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#23The obvious evolution of this would be to host email and allow users to forward: username@github.io -> useremail The fake non-routable emails can be a problem when you have to get in touch with contributors who are no longer active on Github. Saw this problem in the bootstrap project where we still can't get in touch with ~10% of users to get them to approve the addition of an MIT license: https://github.com/twbs/boo…
Which would result in quite a lot of spam sent via GitHub's forwarder, which would then be marked as a spam server in Gmail and other providers, which would result in GitHub's server being blocked.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think many developers complain about recruiters as a way of subtly bragging about how many people want to hire them. Secretly, they'd be kind of disappointed if the emails stopped coming.
Clearly a cousin of the "HumbleBrag", this should be called the "HumbleWhine"... Boo Hoo, Just Look At Me, What An Awesome Developer I Am, That So Many Recruiters Spam Me With Their Offers Darn, spoilt rich kids (devs) and their rich problems!
This isn't a fair perspective. Recruiters are legitimately annoying. Especially as many recruiters obfuscate the hiring process so you can't just skip them directly to the company they're fielding. There's a long litany of abuses they take part in quite frequently, ranging from knowingly introducing you to companies you're not qualified for just because you're a "programmer" to deliberately making the hiring process for a company difficult without their direct participation.
Re: Keep Your GitHub Email Address Private
#25As someone who's had recruiters find my personal email via my GitHub commits, this is a welcome feature.
Thank your choice of profession that you even have this 'problem'. I would literally dance on my hands if I were hounded (courted?) this way in my choice of profession (bio/pharmaceutical research)! Hell, if someone knows where else I could put up email, phone and CV to be seen by successful recruiters, please let me know. Quit the whining and be a bit more thankful for what you do have. Sheesh!
Alternatively, quit your whining that you entered a profession where you're not as marketable, and don't minimize the problems people have even if they appear trivial.
I don't think you know much about how recruiters operate...they're very annoying and antagonize the process for small businesses/boutique firms. There is a reason why hiring managers will say they don't want recruiters.
Often, they obfuscate the process so you can't skip them to contact the representative company directly, and they'll embellish your resume in ways that make it impossible for the company to contact you directly.
I am in the camp that considers them more a nuisance than anything for many purposes, and while I appreciate that it might seem nice to be hounded by them, I share the parent's scorn, as I've never had a positive experience with them. And even if I had, it wouldn't invalidate what I've said.
tl;dr - Peoples' problems are peoples' problems. Other peoples' problems don't make them go away.
Re: Keep Your GitHub Email Address Private
#26This seems kind of like privacy theatre to me. What's to stop someone from just cloning your repos and deriving your email from the commit attributes?
Absolutely nothing. According to the linked help page, a fake email address must be provided to git config. They'd need a separate copy of the repo with the blinded email address for public access. It's not hard to do but I imagine it would bother repo maintainers that an individual user could cause different repos to be served. Of course, everyone could just decide that email in commits isn't worth the privacy risk. It's a trade-off.
For the curious: Downloading all the repos and extracting email addresses takes 1-2 days and costs <$50 on AWS.
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#28As someone who's had recruiters find my personal email via my GitHub commits, this is a welcome feature.
Why does everyone hate recruiters? I'm a developer and I just don't get why other devs hate them so much. See them for what they are(sales people wanting you as their next product) and get over it.
I'll give you my reasons:
1) I've never had a positive experience with recruiters.
2) They have an observable tendency to embellish your resume for their own purposes, refer you to other recruiters, and network you in soliciting ways that you don't know about at first and don't agree to.
3) They obfuscate the hiring process so that you and a company cannot directly interact without going through the recruiter, and make it difficult to have a candid relationship in the interview process.
4) They only exist as a middleman, adding an extra step to an interview process which I am opposed to on principle.
You're not doing this, but I really hate it when people minimize complaints about recruiters because they think we're spoiled. Those people tend to really not know much about how recruiters operate.
Re: Keep Your GitHub Email Address Private
#29This seems kind of like privacy theatre to me. What's to stop someone from just cloning your repos and deriving your email from the commit attributes?
You don't need a valid email to commit to your repositories, but you do need one to use GitHub notifications. This feature makes it possible to use the web editor with a fake email address instead of your notifications email address.
Re: Keep Your GitHub Email Address Private
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank your choice of profession that you even have this 'problem'. I would literally dance on my hands if I were hounded (courted?) this way in my choice of profession (bio/pharmaceutical research)! Hell, if someone knows where else I could put up email, phone and CV to be seen by successful recruiters, please let me know. Quit the whining and be a bit more thankful for what you do have. Sheesh!
I think many developers complain about recruiters as a way of subtly bragging about how many people want to hire them. Secretly, they'd be kind of disappointed if the emails stopped coming.
I can't really argue with you if you've experienced this, but for what it's worth, all the developers I know professionally have legitimate reasons to dislike recruiters, and avoid them wherever possible.
I think it's unfair that people have their motives for disliking something called into question just because they're in a certain strata that has that problem and not everyone else does.