Show HN: Turn GitHub Usernames into Emails

https://github.com/levthedev/GitMail

by kwl • 10 years ago

51 38 10 years ago

github.com

pavel_lishin• 10 years ago

"temp_email" already exists

That could be solved by using this, I believe: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/libdoc/tmpdir/rdoc/Dir.html

kwl2• 10 years ago

Yup! It's been updated to use tmpdir so that isn't an issue anymore

thebiglebrewski• 10 years ago

Ooooooh this is gonna be controversial

bdcravens• 10 years ago

Shouldn't be. Data's already there.

detaro2• 10 years ago

every few months someone discovers that either a) there are e-mail addresses in git commits!!! Public!!! or b) You can put ANY e-mail address there and commit code as SOMEONE ELSE! and it seems the general reaction always is: "Yeah, that's how it works." That stuff is just to easy and obvious to be that interesting...

Now what are appropriate ways to use that data, that's an interesting question.

related: https://github.com/ghtorrent/ghtorrent.org/issues/32 (Ghtorrent archives the public timeline of GitHub)

parennoob2• 10 years ago

a) is fine (which is what this "Gitmail" service provides), but shouldn't b) be preventable if you tied email addresses to the public keys uploaded by the user? So if I tried to push commits to Github with an email address that belongs to Linus Torvalds, Github should be able to reject the push based on the fact that I authenticated with a key pair that is not in Torvalds' keys.

(Perhaps I don't understand the way in which git pushes work well enough?)

aioprisan2• 10 years ago

If you just want a list of contributors' emails, you can just run git log --pretty=format:'%ae' | sort | uniq

aioprisan2• 10 years ago

Even better, take those results through something like Mailgun email validation REST service, and you've got valid emails: https://documentation.mailgun.com/api-email-validation.html

michaelmior• 10 years ago

Warning

Mailgun’s email validation service is available for free to all Mailgun customers. It is intended to validate email addresses submitted through forms like newsletters, online registrations and shopping carts. It is not intended to be used for bulk email list scrubbing and we reserve the right to disable your account if we see it being used as such.

nailer• 10 years ago

What is mail verification in 2016? SMTP VRFY is normally disabled these days.

spinningarrow• 10 years ago

Or `git shortlog -se`

nickysielicki4• 10 years ago

this is much faster.

nickysielicki4• 10 years ago

`sort -u` and you can drop the `uniq`.

ante_annum• 10 years ago

til.

MajesticHobo• 10 years ago

This is why I commit with username@users.noreply.github.com

orlandohill• 10 years ago

GitHub's documentation:

  # Set your email address
  git config --global user.email "username@users.noreply.github.com"

https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-...

state• 10 years ago

Looks like a great way for recruiters to harvest email addresses.

emodendroket• 10 years ago

That was exactly my thought as well. Who else is just going to send e-mails to random people from Github repositories?

adrianpike• 10 years ago

Not surprisingly, they've been doing it for years.

jkot• 10 years ago

I would recommend everyone to create separate email for their open-source work. After ten years on SourceForge, Google Code and now Github I get 200 spam messages a day.

kwl2• 10 years ago

Definitely. When I first started programming I felt weirdly happy about getting spam related to github (because it meant at least one other person thought I was a 'real' programmer), but quickly that turns into annoyance at having such a cluttered inbox.

yeukhon• 10 years ago

The spam source of my inbox are open source DLs because apparently they are based on either google groups or mailman and they almost always require registration. sigh

nickysielicki4• 10 years ago

In bash, if anyone is interested in something they can throw in their .profile

    gitspam () {
    	if [ -z "$1" ] || [ "$#" -gt 1 ] || [ "$#" -lt 1 ] || grep -v "http\(s\)\?://\(.*\)\.git" <(echo "$1") &>/dev/null ; then
    		echo "usage: gitspam http://somedomain.tld/path/to/repo.git"
    		return
    	fi
    
    	tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
    	git clone --bare "$1" "$tmpdir" &>/dev/null
    	cd "$tmpdir"
    	git log --pretty=format:'%ae' | sort -u
    	cd "$OLDPWD"
    	rm -rf "$tmpdir"
    }

nickysielicki4• 10 years ago

I hit my noprocrast before I could edit this, but I believe that this:

    git shortlog -se |& sed 's/^.*\(<\(.*\)>\)/\2/g' | sort -u

is a quicker replacement for

    git log --pretty=format:'%ae' | sort -u

By about 50%

subsection1h• 10 years ago

I hate how people refer to email addresses and email accounts as "emails". Half the time, I don't know if they're referring to addresses, accounts, or messages. I'm not looking forward to when these people start referring to phone numbers as "phones".

dheera2• 10 years ago

On that note, I hate how Hamiltonian, Jacobian, and Lagrangian are nouns while Brownian, Newtonian, and Freudian are adjectives. It's about time we standardize our language and namespace conventions so these things are clearer.

DyslexicAtheist• 10 years ago

forgot Orwellian: "1984" has a strong theme of standardizing namespace conventions to make things clearer. They call it "Newspeak". A terrifying idea.

Grue3• 10 years ago

I'm not looking forward to when these people start referring to phone numbers as "phones".

In my native language (Russian) people already do (and have done long before email existed). In fact, I don't see why that would be unusual. When faxes were used, everyone used to refer to fax numbers as "fax", right?

stevekemp• 10 years ago

I wonder if this is similar to what spamming companies are using:

"We've seen your contributions to github and think you'd be an excellent fit for our startup ... PS Please move to Paris".

cyphar2• 10 years ago

Yeah, this is why we have spam filters. Although, to be fair, I got my job at SUSE because of my free software contributions. So there is a benefit of including a real email (one that you check) in your commits.

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