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There is this weird thing when you need to run git commands in a GitHub action and you need to provide an email and username. Searching the internet, community discussions and code across GitHub the following email and username are recommend:
There is no official documentation on this account or email. It shows up over 15k times when doing a code search. Trying to explain to other developers why this email and username are used is not clear. Often developers want to run GitHub actions and git without the commits being tied back to their account.
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There is this weird thing when you need to run
git
commands in a GitHub action and you need to provide an email and username. Searching the internet, community discussions and code across GitHub the following email and username are recommend:41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
github-actions[bot]
There is no official documentation on this account or email. It shows up over 15k times when doing a code search. Trying to explain to other developers why this email and username are used is not clear. Often developers want to run GitHub actions and git without the commits being tied back to their account.
This has been brought up as a solution in multiple discussions but never documented. If possible it would be great to have a recommended
username
andemail
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