github messes up users

Question

I have a github account, math2001, and, a day ago, I've create an other one, MHSHarriers to build a static website, maintain by the organization.

My problem is that gihub thinks that the modifications I (math2001) do are made by MHSHarriers.

But, i've checked on the log on my computer, it's saying that I've made the modification, but not on github.

Here's a test:

Repo created by math2001: https://github.com/math2001/test-delete-me/commits/master

C:\wamp\www\delete-md (master)
λ git log
commit d1738af44dfa007a550743e96395da54593f2097
Author: math2001 <hidden_email>
Date:   Fri Nov 11 17:33:41 2016 +1100

    edit

commit 23a8b762eb520e6ba503a861e35dae3f31185599
Author: math2001 <hidden_email>
Date:   Fri Nov 11 17:31:08 2016 +1100

    first commit

I've logged in/out, didn't do anything.

I guess you understand that it is (really) annoying. Does anyone had the same problem before?

Thanks in advance

Matt

This is an annoying github "feature" (that has nothing to do with git itself, it's purely in their web interface). See http://stackoverflow.com/q/21903805/1256452 — torek, Nov 11 '16 at 07:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 11 '16 at 08:05

Here's the solution to my problem:

GitHub links the github account to you "account" on your machine using your email.

Here was my conf:

machine: email1 math2001 github account: email2 MHSHarriers github account: email1

So, github understood that MHSHarriers had to be linked with machine.

Here's the page that helped me: Why are my commits linked to the wrong user? - User Documentation

I hope it helps somebody!

Matt

github messes up users

I've logged in/out, didn't do anything.

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