Jan 9, 2013 · If you happen to join a company that uses GitHub or Bitbucket, make sure to create a separate account with your company email and use that for all work-related projects. If your employer's name is Example, Inc. and your name is Sam Smith, a username like "ei-ssmith" or "exinc-ssmith" would be fine.

Sticking to a real name is good, I guess, because GitHub is a professional platform. Having said that, it's not mandatory; if you just want your personal projects or if you're making a brand out of your username, you should use the Reddit one.

Jan 29, 2017 · If the username does not provide NSFW or offensive vibe, but is not a standard one like firstname.lastname or firstinitial.lastname, etc. does it annoy you as an employer? Examples of such usernames

Dec 23, 2012 · The first implies that one should use their proper name, the second is unclear. However, the GitHub page also has the following to say: We use the email address to associate your commits with your GitHub account. What I take from that is that the user.email is important if I want my commits linked to my GitHub account.

I don't use my real name on github, but not on purpose. It's just how I set it up way back when. But I sign all commits to any project i contribute to, private or public. So, my real name is on each and every one anyway.

Apr 26, 2021 · To change this last one you need to have this user available on github with correct permissions to access the repository and to change your github connection credentials (username/token or ssh key) used from your ide or command line.

Sep 29, 2013 · The one you create using git config is your Git username - this is the one that appears as the author of your commits when you do git log or git blame. Since you can use Git outside of GitHub, those two usernames do not have to be the same. Also, the GitHub username must be unique, but nothing forces uniqueness of Git usernames.

Jul 13, 2013 · I'm able to obtain Github api token in python using username and password but i'm not able to use that API-Token for requesting any POST/DELETE/PATCH. How do we use Github API-Tokens for making any request.

Jan 3, 2012 · We need to display all the projects of a person in his repository on GitHub account. How can I display the names of all the git repositories of a particular person using his git-user name?

Aug 14, 2012 · @AdrianM my point is: yes, a naming convention is useful, but it has nothing to do with Git or GitHub, and everything with what you want to do with that particular repo. So the answer to your question is "no, there isn't a naming convention for git repositories".