>>53547638
Obviously I won't be using my main GitHub account for any of this.

The only case of someone getting burned from using git that i can recall was some pedo who put his .dotfiles on github and in his .bash_history were things like cd'ing into and watching cp.

>>53547677
Well there obviously isn't going to be anything illegal in this repo, it's just that I don't want it coming back to me. I checked out the .git folder in another repo, and it has my username in it and a bunch of numbers that I don't know the meaning of.

>>53547709
change your global .gitconfig

commits have a name and email (from your git config) associated with them. also don't commit files that could dox you. that's all you have to worry about

>>53547742
>>53547709
Also be careful when using GPG keys to sign your commits.

And of course, GitHub itself knows your identity.

>>53547721
>>53547742
>>53547750

Where is the global .gitconfig file?

It sounds like if I change things, it could fuck things up for my real account. Would it be smarter to just do all of the development in a Linux VM with a fake name? That way there would be no chance of files mixing.

>>53547765
i don't know where it is on windows, but on linux, it's /home/<user>/.gitconfig

Also, github ties your commits to your account using the email address associated with your account
the email address you're signing your commits with has to match, i think.

why is anonymity so important here?
just make a second github account and make another windows user account and develop from there with a separate .gitconfig

>>53547795
It's in C:\Users\User\.gitconfig.

Since the file has no name, I would probably have to create another Windows account to avoid mix ups.

>>53547638
My computer is called MYREALFIRSTNAME-PC. Will this information ever show in my commits if I make another Windows account on this computer and use it to work on the software I don't want associated with my name?

>>53547937
i grepped through one of my repos and i found my username in the .git files somewhere, i don't know how it got in there, but whatever dude

why is this so important to you?

>>53548002
Because this software is related to trolling reddit users, and that's not something I want future employers knowing I worked on.

>>53547677

My fucking sides. Tell me you have the link to that repository.

Okay, am I retarded, or where the fuck did Github's search field go?

I just use smartgit, I was able to contribute to a ss13 project using an entirely different account at the same time as working on my actual account, the two never intertwined.
using ssh keys helped a bit I'd wager.