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Periods in email addresses #180

Closed bensengupta closed 4 days ago

bensengupta commented 2 weeks ago

Your Github email must match the email you submitted your Application with (if your Github email is different, we recommend creating a new Github profile with the email you created your application with)

My email submitted in my application incudes a period (i.e. john.doe@gmail.com) but my email on Github does not (i.e. johndoe@gmail.com). Github will not let me change this. Just checking, does your submission automation account for this? If it doesn't, what should I do?

phro commented 1 week ago

You can add a secondary email to your github profile that includes the period, then set it as the display email on your profile. It may be helpful to run git config user.email john.doe@gmail.com in your local repository so that your commits are also associated with the same email address.

bensengupta commented 1 week ago

@phro Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this successfully on another github account, but when trying this on this account, I get an 'email is already in use' error message. I only have one account associated to this email.

Your comment has made me realize that this issue is specific to my account, so I've opened a support ticket on Github.