+[2016-11-23T23:16:15Z]zeromusas i see it @users.noreply.github.com email address is non-functional for linking git commits to github accounts unless the user has selected the checkbox in github profile to keep their email address private, which not everyone does. i dont understand all the pros and cons of that +[2016-11-23T23:17:03Z]zeromusmoreover as soon as i imported my commits as joe@users.noreply.github.com and joe renames hiself to joesephine, there's no possible way he can have joe's commits link to his account +[2016-11-23T23:17:57Z]zeromuswhereas if i'd imported the commits as myprojectimport.joe@gmail.com, joesephine could make a new account on github and seize control of myprojectimport.joe@gmail.com from joe's github account +[2016-11-23T23:18:43Z]zeromusobviously i'm subverting the system here. the system is stupid and i dont mind subverting it. but mailmap may be better still +[2016-11-23T23:23:45Z]_sfiguserpreaction, ok is there a way to convert between standard markdown and github markdown ?
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Posted by verve in #github at 2016-11-23T15:20:48Z
boo
+[2016-11-24T00:07:33Z]zeromusalternatively....... i could just do the same thing i said with gmail more or less, except use @users.sf.net addresses +[2016-11-24T00:43:40Z]zeromuscool! using sourceforge emails for commit imports and adding them to your github account seems to work fine. i prefer this to creating a mixed mess of differently-sourced emails in the import +[2016-11-24T04:32:44Z]ssarahwhy is it that on github when im checking contributors, it doesnt account for aliases +[2016-11-24T04:32:58Z]ssarahlike, my username is fullmooninu but i identified as miguel in my local repository +[2016-11-24T04:33:06Z]ssarahso now the statistics dont show what i did