Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Yash Jain <yashjain.lnm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I have two accounts on github("yj291197" and "yaki29").
>>> Both the accounts have different gmail IDs("yj291197@xxxxxxxxx" and
>>> "yashjain.lnm@xxxxxxxxx" respectively) but same passwords.
>>> I used to use git for "yj291197" account and a few days earlier I made
>>> this new account and used git commit to commit on "yaki29" but it
>>> appeared as "yj291197" committed on "yaki29's" repo.
>>> Then I pulled a request of that commit then it appeared "yaki29"
>>> pulled a request with a commit of "yj291197".
>>>
>>> And during this whole session I was signed in as "yaki29" on github.com .
>>>
>>
>> This is a Github issue, so ask Github support.
>>
>> Or read up on .mailmap files.
>
> I am (obviously) not a GitHub support, but I think the confusion is
> coming from not understanding who the committer and the author of a
> commit are and where they are coming from. They are both recorded
> locally, taken from user.name and user.email configuration variables
> when the commits are made. "git push" to propagate them to GitHub
> will NOT change these values of a commit, once a commit is created.
>
> The story described looks quite consistent if the user has
> yj291197@xxxxxxxxx configured as user.email and kept making commits
> in the local repository, and pushed them to either yj291197 or yaki29
> accounts at GitHub, without ever changing the local configuration to
> use the other e-mail address. All commits would record the user and
> e-mail address yj291197, and the only one that may be attributed to
> the new one yaki29 would be the automerge created at GitHub when a
> pull request is responded on-site without first fetching and making
> a merge locally.
IOW, this sounds like Pebkac to me. There is no a thing that needs
fixing in Git, and I do not immediately see there is anything GitHub
needs to fix, either. The user may need fixing, though ;-).