| > What does this mean? How would it link to their main account in anyway, regardless of this request? Git adds some author information to each commit [1]. You can set those values project by project, and you can also set them globally. To set a name and email to default to on all repos, you'd do this: `git config --global user.name "Topsoil"`
`git config --global user.email "topsoil@example.com"` To set different committer info for a repo, you'd run the same commands without the `--global` flag while in the root directory of the project. When this person got re-interested in their project, they decided to squash all the commits into one new commit, but forgot to change their name and email on the repo and as a result exposed their real identity when they published the code on GitHub. I had to look up what f-list was, and it seems to be some kind of furry role-playing community? (i didn't do any research other than briefly looking at the first page of google) so i understand why this person DCMA'd themself. [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#_commit_information |
This is very useful, if you have separate accounts, for example a business and a personal account.
[1] https://gist.github.com/Icaruk/f024a18093dc28ec1588cfb90efc3...