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I'am currently converting a svn repository into a git one. As I proceed manually, I regularly change the user.name and user.email to set the author of the commit. Everything seems to work fine, but now I have to commit something from a user which has no email address. I removed email property from .gitconfig file and tried, but then in git log, email field shows user_login@user_login.(none). Is it possible to set no email and prevent git guessing one ?

neodelphi
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  • Are you really doing this manually? Why not write a script to do all the hard work? –  Sep 10 '11 at 16:23
  • Yes I am. Since svn cannot rebase multiple commits into single ones, I have to merge some commits during my conversion process, which is hard to do with script since it requires my inspection. I also translate the comments into english and format it for git (50 characters title...). So I have to do it by hand if I want it to be well done. – neodelphi Sep 10 '11 at 16:28
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    Possible duplicate of [Commit without setting user.email and user.name](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22058041/commit-without-setting-user-email-and-user-name) – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Oct 14 '15 at 09:12
  • Possible duplicate of [git commit as different user without email / or only email](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11579311/git-commit-as-different-user-without-email-or-only-email) – Yep_It's_Me May 29 '19 at 01:30

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I think that you can only do this with an explicit author specification:

git commit --author "Snail Mail <>"

You need the angle brackets so that git knows that you really are passing an empty email address.

CB Bailey
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Similar to neodelphi's comment, you can set this for all commits with

git config --global user.name 'Snail Mail'
git config --global user.email '<>'

(You can use quotes instead of escaping.) To set this for the current project only, remove the --global option only. i.e.

git config user.name 'Snail Mail'
git config user.email '<>'
Sparhawk
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Use GitHub Anonymous NoReply Email (recommended)

When contributing to github, always use the anonymous noreply email address provided by github - which you can find here: https://github.com/settings/emails (have to tick "Keep my email addresses private" to see it).

Read more here: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address

If using github or even if you're not, this is a better option than setting no email.

git config user.name 'Joe Blogs'
git config user.email 'ID+username@users.noreply.github.com'

Or you can add this to your ${repo}/.git/config or .gitconfig file directly;

[user]
    name = Joe Blogs
    email = ID+username@users.noreply.github.com

Set invalid email (not recommended)

Otherwise you can fallback to the other options people have stated;

git config user.name 'Joe Blogs'
git config user.email '<>'

Or you can add this to your ${repo}/.git/config or .gitconfig file directly;

[user]
    name = Joe Blogs
    email = <>
Glenn
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I had same issue . But now I can fix it by using github no reply mail .

Go to https://github.com/settings/email and copy your no reply mail ,it would look like this ID+username@users.noreply.github.com .

than set this email as global email to your pc :

git config user.email 'ID+username@users.noreply.github.com

After this process your problem will fix

Coden Arfat
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