Setting your commit email address

You can set the email address that is used to author commits on GitHub and on your computer.

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About commit email addresses

GitHub uses your commit email address to associate commits with your account on GitHub. You can choose the email address that will be associated with the commits you push from the command line as well as web-based Git operations you make.

For web-based Git operations, you can set your commit email address on GitHub. For commits you push from the command line, you can set your commit email address in Git.

After changing your commit email address on GitHub, the new email address will be visible in all of your future web-based Git operations by default. Any commits you made prior to changing your commit email address are still associated with your previous email address.

To ensure that commits are attributed to you and appear in your contributions graph, use an email address that is connected to your account on GitHub. For more information, see Adding an email address to your GitHub account.

Setting your commit email address on GitHub

  1. Klicken Sie auf einer beliebigen Seite auf GitHub oben rechts auf Ihr Profilfoto und dann auf Einstellungen.

  2. Klicke im Abschnitt „Zugriff“ auf der Seitenleiste auf E-Mails.

  3. Gib in „E-Mail-Adresse hinzufügen“ deine E-Mail-Adresse ein, und klicke auf Hinzufügen.

  4. Wähle im Dropdownmenü „Primäre E-Mail-Adresse“ die E-Mail-Adresse aus, die du mit deinen webbasierten Git-Operationen verknüpfen möchtest.

    Screenshot: Einstellungsseite „E-Mail“. Unter „Primäre E-Mail-Adresse“ ist ein Dropdownmenü mit der E-Mail-Adresse von Octocat orange umrandet.

Setting your commit email address in Git

You can use the git config command to change the email address you associate with your Git commits. The new email address you set will be visible in any future commits you push to GitHub from the command line. Any commits you made prior to changing your commit email address are still associated with your previous email address.

Setting your email address for every repository on your computer

  1. Öffne TerminalTerminalGit Bash.

  2. Lege in Git eine E-Mail-Adresse fest. Du kannst eine beliebige E-Mail-Adresse verwenden.

    git config --global user.email "YOUR_EMAIL"

  3. Bestätige, dass Du die E-Mail-Adresse in Git richtig eingegeben hast:

    $ git config --global user.email
email@example.com

  4. Füge die E-Mail-Adresse zu deinem Konto auf GitHub hinzu, damit dir deine Commits zugeordnet und in deinem Beitragsdiagramm angezeigt werden. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter Adding an email address to your GitHub account.

Setting your email address for a single repository

GitHub uses the email address set in your local Git configuration to associate commits pushed from the command line with your account on GitHub.

You can change the email address associated with commits you make in a single repository. This will override your global Git configuration settings in this one repository, but will not affect any other repositories.

  1. Öffne TerminalTerminalGit Bash.

  2. Change the current working directory to the local repository where you want to configure the email address that you associate with your Git commits.

  3. Lege in Git eine E-Mail-Adresse fest. Du kannst eine beliebige E-Mail-Adresse verwenden.

    git config user.email "YOUR_EMAIL"

  4. Bestätige, dass Du die E-Mail-Adresse in Git richtig eingegeben hast:

    $ git config user.email
email@example.com

  5. Füge die E-Mail-Adresse zu deinem Konto auf GitHub hinzu, damit dir deine Commits zugeordnet und in deinem Beitragsdiagramm angezeigt werden. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter Adding an email address to your GitHub account.