Yes, this is forced by the GitHub don't use my real email address
option. I won't be allowed to push if I used my real address there.

I can change the commit author to use my real email address if that's
preferred for upstream.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 9:15 AM Kristoffer Haugsbakk
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, Feb 23, 2026, at 17:51, Andrew Au wrote:

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From: Andrew Au <redacted>

This email here,

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Signed-off-by: Andrew Au <redacted>

has to match with the email here. Or probably vice versa since a real
email address is better than a GitHub noreply email in this context.

Maybe this was just an automatic don’t-use-my-real-email-address thing
that GitHub did?

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