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by josephcsible 1723 days ago
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".
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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.