Thanks for the info, yes your are correct it was for the git config not github. I'm brand new to this and wasn't sure if a real name was required vs just a username. I know is some cases official names are required and didn't want to use the wrong one to start out with. I'm reading the help files/information currently and one of the first steps was to set this up. I'll set up github separately. Thanks for the info! Dennis On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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).
