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Is there a way to only make some of my email visible? #59731
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Yeah, go to settings and there you can set your public email |
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Well, I'm aware of that; my question is not about making the email
Here are the settings under "email". My current settings does not allow me to set a public email (as you posted) nor could I use any of these emails to commit as I blocked command line pushes. My question is if it is possible to make only 1 of my 3 emails "visible" (not "public"), while the other two remain invisible and block pushes that are associated. |
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I would like to do exactly the same thing. I want to keep my primary email fully private, and be able to post a secondary email on my public profile. The only temporary solution I can think of is to just write my secondary email in my bio. |
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It will allow others know my e-mail, but the push behaviour will not get changed. |
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I want to keep my personal email address confidential when committing to a public repository, but I want to commit to a private repository managed by an organization with the organization's email address. |
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Bump! I want this feature! |
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I have the same question. I want to only be able to push commits with my public email and keep my primary email address private (and block commit pushes that use it). But currently it's not possible. This is an important feature because GitHub has a bug where if a maintainer chooses to squash your commits while merging a pull request, GitHub will generate a commit associated with your PRIMARY email instead of the PUBLIC email that you used to make the actual commits that make up the PR. I was told by GitHub support that this is the expected behavior... |
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Wait what? How is that expected? That is unacceptable. |
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In the past, the email address used is the notification email you configured for that organisation; Github has a very intuitive UI lmao /s |
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Bump I want this feature, I want my custom email to be able to show on my profile but have the other one protected from commits |
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There is a way!
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you have to disable push protection though |
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Again - that will make all the emails visible and one of them being displayed - it does not help my privacy to the extent I wanted it. |
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the option is literally grayed out in your screenshot |
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This must be a feature request discussion, I'd love this feature |
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Besides work email requirement mentioned above, some repos also introduce contribution guideline that forbids the use of noreply (aka. private) email, such feature would be very helpful in such cases. Alternatively (but maybe more difficult to implement), it would be better if I'm allowed to push commits with selected email in selected repos (instead of a master switch). |
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It's also acceptable for me if github-cli adds an option to enable/disable email visibility. |
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Okay, I think I discovered the preferred way to do this: Just register 1 account for each of your email, then use account switcher 👈🤣 |
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Then eventually you have to mess with different auth/signing keys, repo permissions, access tokens, app integrations etc.😿 I'd assume this only works in corporate scope. |
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True - although in the past GitHub recommended using 1 account for everything but nowadays there's account switcher. As of signing keys, repo permissions, etc etc..., if you want to use multiple emails you will need to handle them separately anyways, I suppose...? |
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Well, I guess you are right about signing keys. Not sure about other parts as I run a self-hosted forgejo instance now. The issue just does not bother me any longer. |
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Yeah, It would be awesome to do this, especially when you are a member of multiple organizations. As others, I am not OK with disabling the push protection... |
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2025 I want to have one of my emails exposed without push protection while keeping other emails private with push protection. |
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bump |
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Does anyone know a way to do this? I haven't added an email to my profile for 3 years because of this. |
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I think if you read the replies in the thread the conclusion is pretty much that there is currently no way to do this at all, unless you register multiple GH accounts. |
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Yeah, very sadly. If github-cli can add an option to enable/disable email visibility, it would also eliminate many user cases as it can be automated. |
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There's no direct way of doing this atm. The only workaround I found was using the URL field and redirect to a mailto address.
Only downside is losing the URL field. However, combining it with your personal domain/org will keep it professional and clean. Check out my profile and see for yourselves :) |
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bumb +1 |
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I had always assumed private settings for emails were per-organization. This was very surprising to find out, and it is essentially saying that if an organization requires work emails in commits (and not no-reply), you'd automatically have to make your own personal email public as well. |
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bump +1 |
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Is there a way to do this now? Or is this still not a feature? |
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still not a feature ._. |
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It's been a year since the request was submitted, is it going to be a feature anytime soon? |
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Bumpo+1 |
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Bump +1. Really cumbersome when juggling security, org-level repos and privacy. |
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By enabling Keeping my email address private, your work email is no longer public.
The whole point of this feature request is I don't have to do these. This suggestion sounds no different than saying "no, do it for all your account, all your repos across all organizations yourself". |
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I'm not sure how the website of a Aluminum Manufacturing company pop up from nowhere, but if you read any of the discussions or replies above this reply feels like LLM generated nonsense. What you are suggesting is basically to use the personal email as the identity to push to github and use work email (or any email) for the commit. One can do that and that is entierly irrelevant to my question because the problem we were facing was that we need to associate our work emails to our accounts. |
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This feels like vibe-commenting. It doesn't solve the issue and redirects the conversation to something irrelevant. Spam? |
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Hey Github, if you want you can give me an interview and I'll show you how I plan to tackle this 😊 
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Bump +1. Really a challenging time when juggling corporate and personal emails across Organizations, personal repos, etc... |
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Bump +1 |
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I have several emails, one for personal use and one for work. I want to expose the work email to public and use it for commits, while keep other emails private, disabling accidental push made with these email. I still want these emails to be with my account because I want to get recovery emails.
Now it appears to me that I either enable privacy and make all of them invisible, or disable email privacy and make all of them visible. Is there any way to make only one of them visible but not others?
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