Is there a way to only make some of my email visible?

[axmmisaka]

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I have several emails, one for personal use and one for work. I want to expose the work email to public and use it for commits, while keep other emails private, disabling accidental push made with these email. I still want these emails to be with my account because I want to get recovery emails.

Now it appears to me that I either enable privacy and make all of them invisible, or disable email privacy and make all of them visible. Is there any way to make only one of them visible but not others?

[akash-singh8]

Yeah, go to settings and there you can set your public email

[axmmisaka]

Well, I'm aware of that; my question is not about making the email public but merely visible (i.e. private or non private).

Here are the settings under "email". My current settings does not allow me to set a public email (as you posted) nor could I use any of these emails to commit as I blocked command line pushes.

My question is if it is possible to make only 1 of my 3 emails "visible" (not "public"), while the other two remain invisible and block pushes that are associated.

[ghost]

I would like to do exactly the same thing. I want to keep my primary email fully private, and be able to post a secondary email on my public profile. The only temporary solution I can think of is to just write my secondary email in my bio.

[axmmisaka]

It will allow others know my e-mail, but the push behaviour will not get changed.

[aetos382]

I want to keep my personal email address confidential when committing to a public repository, but I want to commit to a private repository managed by an organization with the organization's email address.

[PetyXbron]

Bump! I want this feature!

[sryze]

I have the same question. I want to only be able to push commits with my public email and keep my primary email address private (and block commit pushes that use it). But currently it's not possible.

This is an important feature because GitHub has a bug where if a maintainer chooses to squash your commits while merging a pull request, GitHub will generate a commit associated with your PRIMARY email instead of the PUBLIC email that you used to make the actual commits that make up the PR. I was told by GitHub support that this is the expected behavior...

[C0D3-M4513R]

Wait what? How is that expected? That is unacceptable.

[axmmisaka]

In the past, the email address used is the notification email you configured for that organisation; Github has a very intuitive UI lmao /s

[juliansommer]

Bump I want this feature, I want my custom email to be able to show on my profile but have the other one protected from commits

[Katherine-Be]

There is a way!

1. From your public profile, go to email settings.

2. Then deselect "Keep my email addresses private."

3. Finally, go back to your public profile, use the drop-down menu and select which email you'd like to display.

[juliansommer]

you have to disable push protection though

[axmmisaka]

Again - that will make all the emails visible and one of them being displayed - it does not help my privacy to the extent I wanted it.

[Rishi-Sudhakar]

This must be a feature request discussion, I'd love this feature

[Vinfall]

Besides work email requirement mentioned above, some repos also introduce contribution guideline that forbids the use of noreply (aka. private) email, such feature would be very helpful in such cases.

Alternatively (but maybe more difficult to implement), it would be better if I'm allowed to push commits with selected email in selected repos (instead of a master switch).

[Vinfall]

It's also acceptable for me if github-cli adds an option to enable/disable email visibility.

[axmmisaka]

Okay, I think I discovered the preferred way to do this:

Just register 1 account for each of your email, then use account switcher 👈🤣

[Vinfall]

Then eventually you have to mess with different auth/signing keys, repo permissions, access tokens, app integrations etc.😿 I'd assume this only works in corporate scope.

[timonviola]

Yeah, It would be awesome to do this, especially when you are a member of multiple organizations.

As others, I am not OK with disabling the push protection...