Enabling email privacy breaks contribution history

[bu5hm4nn]

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In the Email preferences it says:

Keep my email addresses private

We’ll remove your public profile email and use bu5hm4nn@users.noreply.github.com when performing web-based Git operations (e.g. edits and merges) and sending email on your behalf. If you want command line Git operations to use your private email you must set your email in Git.

Commits pushed to GitHub using this email will still be associated with your account.

However after setting git to use this address, commits are no longer associated with my account.

As an example, see mikedilger/gossip@9fb1a5e
Or even on my own repo: bu5hm4nn/egui-video@7041ed3

[bu5hm4nn]

Ok, I figured out that this is due to the email being wrapped in opening and closing double quotes in the config file which git does not strip. Maybe github can strip quotes prior to matching, since those are not valid in domains and emails anyways?