Whenever I try to use GIT it automatically enriches my commits with a lot of private data like user name, email and/or pc-name.
How do I configure GIT correctly so that it never automatically discloses my private data?
I already performed
git config --global user.name Robert
git config --global user.email ""
However my commits/pushes still contain my account and computer name which I consider to be private data.
What is necessary to make GIT not to publish my personal information into the repositories/internet?
Running
git config --global user.email ""
clears the user.email field of your user-level config file, which will lead Git to assume that you haven't set your email address yet (under the assumption that no email address is specified in the repository-level config file, of course).
As a countermeasure, Git will generate an email address of the form username@pc-name (where pc-name includes the name and the FQDN) and will bake that email into your commits instead:
$ git log -1
commit 9cd00b7ed6206086bf332e0481092590d07626d5
Author: jubobs <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Dec 18 16:23:19 2014 +0000
However, it is possible to trick Git into using an empty email address; you simply need to run the following command instead (tested with Git 2.1.3):
git config --global user.email "\<\>"
Then, Git won't use the autogenerated email address mentioned above:
$ git log -1
commit 0d0bb289b293ec020b607021bbd886be5107bc7f
Author: Jubobs <>
Date: Thu Dec 18 16:25:14 2014 +0000
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