On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Dennis Powless <claven123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is it customary to use your real name or a user name when registering to GIT? I guess you are talking about using `git config --global user.name "XXX YYY"`. (Though maybe you are talking about github.com registration, but in this case you should not have sent this request to this mailing list.) When you use git config as described above, this is not a real registration. You just configure Git on your machine (only your ~/.gitconfig is changed), so that Git knows what to put in the "author" field of the commits you create. You are free to use whatever you want but some projects might ask contributors to put their real name in the author fields of the commits (and sometimes in other places too, like in the "Signed-off-by" in the commit messages).
