{% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} uses your commit email address to associate commits with your account on {% data variables.location.product_location %}. 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 {% data variables.location.product_location %}. For commits you push from the command line, you can set your commit email address in Git.

{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}Any commits you made prior to changing your commit email address are still associated with your previous email address.{% else %}After changing your commit email address on {% data variables.product.product_name %}, 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.{% endif %}

{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}

{% note %}

Note: {% data reusables.user-settings.no-verification-disposable-emails %}

{% endnote %}

{% endif %}

{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}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. 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.

You can also choose to block commits you push from the command line that expose your personal email address. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."{% endif %}

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 {% data variables.location.product_location %}{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}, or the noreply email address provided to you in your email settings{% endif %}. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."

{% ifversion fpt or ghec %}

{% note %}

Note: If you created your account on {% data variables.location.product_location %} after July 18, 2017, your noreply email address for {% data variables.product.product_name %} is an ID number and your username in the form of ID+USERNAME@users.noreply.github.com. If you created your account on {% data variables.location.product_location %} prior to July 18, 2017, and enabled Keep my email address private prior to that date, your noreply email address from {% data variables.product.product_name %} is USERNAME@users.noreply.github.com. You can get an ID-based noreply email address for {% data variables.product.product_name %} by selecting (or deselecting and reselecting) Keep my email address private in your email settings.

{% endnote %}

If you use your noreply email address for {% data variables.product.product_name %} to make commits and then change your username, those commits will not be associated with your account on {% data variables.location.product_location %}. This does not apply if you're using the ID-based noreply address from {% data variables.product.product_name %}. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."{% endif %}

{% data reusables.files.commit-author-email-options %}

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %} {% data reusables.user-settings.emails %} {% data reusables.user-settings.add_and_verify_email %} {% data reusables.user-settings.select_primary_email %}{% ifversion fpt or ghec %} {% data reusables.user-settings.keeping_your_email_address_private %}{% endif %}

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 {% data variables.location.product_location %} from the command line. Any commits you made prior to changing your commit email address are still associated with your previous email address.

{% data reusables.command_line.open_the_multi_os_terminal %}

1. {% data reusables.user-settings.set_your_email_address_in_git %}

   git config --global user.email "YOUR_EMAIL"

2. {% data reusables.user-settings.confirm_git_email_address_correct %}

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

3. {% data reusables.user-settings.link_email_with_your_account %}

{% data variables.product.product_name %} uses the email address set in your local Git configuration to associate commits pushed from the command line with your account on {% data variables.location.product_location %}.

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.

{% data reusables.command_line.open_the_multi_os_terminal %}

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

2. {% data reusables.user-settings.set_your_email_address_in_git %}

   git config user.email "YOUR_EMAIL"

3. {% data reusables.user-settings.confirm_git_email_address_correct %}

   $ git config user.email
   email@example.com

4. {% data reusables.user-settings.link_email_with_your_account %}