Keep Your Email Private
Good news for folks who want to get their web-based GitHub Flow on while remaining cloaked in secrecy: Today we’re 🚢ing the ability to make your email address private! Until…
Good news for folks who want to get their web-based GitHub Flow on while remaining
cloaked in secrecy: Today we’re
Until today, all web-based GitHub Flow used your primary email address.
This included creating, editing, and deleting files, as well as merging pull requests.
But now you can keep your email address private. To do so, visit your email settings page:

With this turned on, web-based operations will use a username@users.noreply.github.com email address.
Think of this as git config user.email for the website. You should still use git config
for configuring your email address for commits done via the command line, though.
For more information, see the help document.
Big
Written by
Related posts
GitHub availability report: February 2026
In February, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues
GitHub recently experienced several availability incidents. We understand the impact these outages have on our customers and are sharing details on the stabilization work we’re prioritizing right now.
GitHub availability report: January 2026
In January, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.