In 'Add email address', type your email address and click Add. In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings. If you enabled email address privacy, then the commit author email address cannot be changed and is by default. If you haven't enabled email address privacy, you can choose which verified email address to author changes with when you edit, delete, or create files or merge a pull request on GitHub. For more information, see ' Changing your GitHub username.' Setting your commit email address on GitHub

This does not apply if you're using the ID-based noreply address from GitHub. If you use your noreply email address for GitHub to make commits and then change your username, those commits will not be associated with your account on. Note: If you created your account on after July 18, 2017, your no-reply email address for GitHub is a seven-digit ID number and your username in the form of If you created your account on prior to July 18, 2017, your no-reply email address from GitHub is You can get an ID-based no-reply email address for GitHub by selecting (or deselecting and reselecting) Keep my email address private in your email settings. For more information, see ' Adding an email address to your GitHub account.' 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, or the noreply email address provided to you in your email settings. For more information, see ' Blocking command line pushes that expose your personal email.' You can also choose to block commits you push from the command line that expose your personal email address. To use your noreply address for web-based Git operations, set your commit email address on GitHub and choose to Keep my email address private. To use your noreply email address for commits you push from the command line, use that email address when you set your commit email address in Git. If you'd like to keep your personal email address private, you can use a no-reply email address from GitHub as your commit email address. For more information, see ' Setting your commit email address on GitHub.' If you'd like to keep your email address private, you can use a GitHub-provided noreply email address. Note: You cannot verify email addresses from disposable email address services (services that allow you to receive email at a temporary address that expires after a certain time).

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