I deleted all my GitHub repos

#1

Post by dragosion » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 8:42 AM UTC

I deleted all my GitHub repos
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Re: I deleted all my GitHub repos

#2

Post by dragosion » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 8:42 AM UTC

Try to add .patch to one of your commit urls on GitHub. Probably you didn't do the silly mistake I did but some might have.

Re: I deleted all my GitHub repos

#3

Post by linkdd » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 9:04 AM UTC

I already put my email in:

  - my online resume
  - LICENSE copyright holders
  - public contact info on various websites

The anti-spam at gmail.com is pretty decent so that I do not see those spams.

Basically, I have 2 email addresses: one public, one professional that I share only with partners/clients/coworkers.

I expect my public address to be found in under 5 minutes if someone wants to contact me (or spam me).

Re: I deleted all my GitHub repos

#4

Post by yorwba » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 11:17 AM UTC

This is not limited to GitHub. The whole point of putting an email into each commit is to make it easy to contact the author.

So if you make a git repo public, no matter whether you use a managed git service or self-host, anyone who can access it will be able to read all those email adresses in the commits.

Re: I deleted all my GitHub repos

#5

Post by josephcsible » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 4:52 PM UTC

This seems like a nothing-burger. If you put your email address publicly on the Internet, you'll get spam. Git inherently doesn't let you remove your email address from past commits without rewriting history and all the problems that causes. And I have no idea why this suggests a bunch of GitHub alternatives that all have the same "problem".

Re: I deleted all my GitHub repos

#6

Post by dragosion » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 6:00 PM UTC

josephcsible wrote: post #5

This seems like a nothing-burger. If you put your email address publicly on the Internet, you'll get spam. Git inherently doesn't let you remove your email address from past commits without rewriting history and all the problems that causes. And I have no idea why this suggests a bunch of GitHub alternatives that all have the same "problem".

Would be perfect if they have a filter to replace the real email in past commits also. Should be pretty easy.

Delete is the only real option now as far as I see.

I don't know if any of the other ones do that. It's always good to have a second option.

Re: I deleted all my GitHub repos

#7

Post by josephcsible » Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 6:17 PM UTC

dragosion wrote: post #6

josephcsible wrote: post #5

This seems like a nothing-burger. If you put your email address publicly on the Internet, you'll get spam. Git inherently doesn't let you remove your email address from past commits without rewriting history and all the problems that causes. And I have no idea why this suggests a bunch of GitHub alternatives that all have the same "problem".

Would be perfect if they have a filter to replace the real email in past commits also. Should be pretty easy. Delete is the only real option now as far as I see. I don't know if any of the other ones do that. It's always good to have a second option.

> Would be perfect if they have a filter to replace the real email in past commits also. Should be pretty easy.

Replacing email addresses in past commits means rewriting history, which will break everyone else's copy of the repo.

> I don't know if any of the other ones do that.

None of them do what you want.