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Karina Kozarova
Karina Kozarova

Reputation: 1215

GitHub contributing by username

Using Terminal I made a few commits being:

git push
Enter username: username
Enter password: password

When I do it like this, the commits don't add up to my contribution graph on GitHub (even tough they are in the repository). However, when I do:

git push
Enter username: email address
Enter password: password

they show up. Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this just how GitHub works?

I've already set up the git config --global user.email and git config --global username.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 82

Answers (2)

eftshift0
eftshift0

Reputation: 30164

I think the problem is not the "authentication" part. github counts contributions based on the mails of the authors of the revisions. You could push stuff from 100 other developers on a project (because they are the authors) and they would get the contributions.

Upvotes: 2

Basile Starynkevitch
Basile Starynkevitch

Reputation: 1

You should read an SSH tutorial (so generate once your SSH keys) and set up some SSH key on github using https://github.com/settings/keys

You should not have to enter your user & password at every git push (or any git command involving remote access to the github servers)

See also this. So use e.g. git clone [email protected]:karinakozarova/Made2Make.git to clone your Made2Make github repository on your local computer

Upvotes: 1

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