It seems like it'd be possible to at least restrict your GitHub account from appearing linked to a commit unless it's a repo you've contributed to directly (by pushing or with a pull request).
That would need to be configurable, though -- it would kind of suck to lose credit for commits just because they weren't merged using GitHub's tools.
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It's a useful feature in git, but a bug in github.
In my company's git repo, yes, I want full control.
In a public forum where lots of my public image is tied up, I don't want people to be able to impersonate me.
It's a tricky one to solve, though. Not sure how it would be achieved without demanding that every commit is GPG signed.
It seems like it'd be possible to at least restrict your GitHub account from appearing linked to a commit unless it's a repo you've contributed to directly (by pushing or with a pull request).
That would need to be configurable, though -- it would kind of suck to lose credit for commits just because they weren't merged using GitHub's tools.
@davidbanham
May I quote you on that? I think I focused too much on the cool factor and not the problem I was trying to address. (Which you summed perfectly.)
Why is PGP signing an unacceptable solution in your use case? It sounds like that's what I would do given a pressing need to ID a committer.