Git commit with no email

Question

I'am currently converting a svn repository into a git one. As I proceed manually, I regularly change the user.name and user.email to set the author of the commit. Everything seems to work fine, but now I have to commit something from a user which has no email address. I removed email property from.gitconfig file and tried, but then in git log, email field shows user_login@user_login.(none) . Is it possible to set no email and prevent git guessing one?

Answer 1

I think that you can only do this with an explicit author specification:

git commit --author "Snail Mail <>"

You need the angle brackets so that git knows that you really are passing an empty email address.

Answer 2

Similar to neodelphi's comment , you can set this for all commits with

git config --global user.name 'Snail Mail'
git config --global user.email '<>'

(You can use quotes instead of escaping.) To set this for the current project only, remove the --global option only. ie

git config user.name 'Snail Mail'
git config user.email '<>'

Answer 3

Use GitHub Anonymous NoReply Email (recommended)

When contributing to github, always use the anonymous noreply email address provided by github - which you can find here: https://github.com/settings/emails (have to tick "Keep my email addresses private" to see it).

Read more here: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-email-preferences/setting-your-commit-email-address

If using github or even if you're not, this is a better option than setting no email.

git config user.name 'Joe Blogs'
git config user.email 'ID+username@users.noreply.github.com'

Or you can add this to your ${repo}/.git/config or .gitconfig file directly;

[user]
    name = Joe Blogs
    email = ID+username@users.noreply.github.com

Set invalid email (not recommended)

Otherwise you can fallback to the other options people have stated;

git config user.name 'Joe Blogs'
git config user.email '<>'

Or you can add this to your ${repo}/.git/config or .gitconfig file directly;

[user]
    name = Joe Blogs
    email = <>

Answer 4

the accepted answer doesn't work on some git versions (including, but not limited to mine ( @Szczepan Hołyszewski @xiaodai ) )

this answer worked for me

Answer 5

I had same issue. But now I can fix it by using github no reply mail.

Go to https://github.com/settings/email and copy your no reply mail,it would look like this ID+username@users.noreply.github.com .

than set this email as global email to your pc:

git config user.email 'ID+username@users.noreply.github.com

After this process your problem will fix