remote: error: GH007: Your push would publish a private email address.

github_private_email.md

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remote: error: GH007: Your push would publish a private email address.
remote: You can make your email public or disable this protection by visiting:
remote: http://github.com/settings/emails
To github.com:gengwg/xxxxx.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (push declined due to email privacy restrictions)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:gengwg/xxxxx.git'

The steps I took to fix (thanks for the advice on this thread) were roughly as follows:

git config --global user.email "526473+gb96@users.noreply.github.com"
git rebase -i
git commit --amend --reset-author
git rebase --continue
git push

I found rebase -i allowed be to edit the commit message but retained the previous (private) email address in the log.

The commit --amend --reset-author seemed to be the easiest way to replace the offending email address.

nice, can confirm this fixes GH007 error. thanks!

I found that ammending is enough -- no need to rebase.

Thank you, it was my first commit to this repo so nothing to rebase, but it did let me make that amend. Why Sourcetree doesn't have this built-in is beyond me.

Thanks!

Спасибо !

Just what I needed, thank you!

I agree with dmvianna after git commit --ammend --reset-author there is no need to rebase. I went ahead and pushed it worked. Thanks for this solution.

thank you! I have spend 2 hours for this

Still works! Thank you

Thanks

Thanks man you probably saved me a tonne of time!

I m getting an error while executing this git statement - git commit --amend --reset-author
Showing unable to update on the database.

This is great! Thank you

Me amaneci rompiendome la cabeza, me soluciono el problema. Gracias

Thank you!

NOTICE

Please change the user.email to the one assigned to you by GitHub. It is found at https://github.com/settings/emails.