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Serious question: I just committed to github and got shocked: Netbeans has transferred my full name and my PRIVATE EMAIL ADRESS (which i never never never ever use in IDEs, websites etc) to github (as committer’s name and committer’s email adress). How the hell does Netbeans know that ? Some kind of very creepy cookie-reading-gravator-github-social-bullshit-mashup ?
Name and email are visible for the whole world, including google’s spiders.
Do you know how this can happen ?
I think the best solution is to set the committer’s username and email address in the commit dialog in NetBeans, see NetBeans Git Support user guide.
Netbeans reads global .gitconfig file (in your home dir) and .git/config file in you local repository root folder and extracts your username and email from there and uses them wherever necessary (to connect to github when performing push, pull or fetch, when committing to your local repository) but you can override it in the commit dialog if you want to commit under a different username.