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Choose what name to display in repositories. #10840
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I feel exactly like @xaved88 in the og discussion:
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I'm part of a large org that's migrating from BitBucket. We have users creating entirely new accounts on GitHub JUST because of this concern, something easily addressed in the web UI and should be adjustable by org and user (org taking precendence.) We aren't talking about global or repo config (though that has to be addressed too), but on the GitHub web UI, there's no good reason this isn't already resolved if the codebase is healthy and GitHub has concern about its users very real-world needs. |
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I, for one, do not want share my personal GitHub account with my employer. What happens when you leave that employer? Will the employer disable that GitHub account since they are no longer an employee? It makes sense for an employer to disable accounts of former employees. |
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You don't, they add your account to their organization but the account stays yours, they don't get any access to it. |
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Thank you. Retaining my personal account is not an issue since I'm now retired. |
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Each secure org I've joined had me take an extra step to authorize keys that will have access to their org/repos. Those keys would get disabled when you leave, but that's the only long-term impact and one that makes sense to me. This thread is more about how your co-workers will "discover" you on GitHub without already knowing your github username. Example: |
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I'm also in favor of a new feature allowing organization specific profile names (slightly different than the original idea here). For our company, we don't want to force employees into creating a handle or adding a profile name that is their real name (or even close to it) because we want our employees to be empowered to make the public internet identity choice that is right for him or her. Since the handles may be opaque to keep a person private, a great feature would be to have an "organization name" that is a name that shows like the GitHub profile name but is only visible within the organization and takes preference over the standard GitHub profile name at https://github.com/settings/profile. |
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In our company we asked all developers to put their github nick as slack field so that, at least though slack, we can identify who is who. Another requirement is to have work email be defined and always used for commits on company repos. Of course having actual name, visible and searchable, would be better. |
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This is a major problem - I can't audit usernames when they are "us8yu23wfs" or "new-banana-popcorn"! |
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Agree |
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💯 It is incredibly difficult to audit, and I also don't want my unprofessional username to be displayed to everyone in my organization. Also, creating a separate account does not work well because I can not have two accounts associated with my SSO. As I am an admin in my organization, I want to guarantee than permissions have switched over to my new account because detaching my original account. Ideally, I would like to retain both accounts. GitHub seems to cause me more issues than it solves lately. Pull requests are very poorly implemented. Sometimes I wonder if the GitHub developers actually use their own product. |
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This is really annoying. I don't want to be showed as "Cubox" on all my company's internal repos, but as my full name. But keep using a single account, and the "Cubox" name for non-company repos |
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We need this at our large company. GitHub's auto-generated changelog in reviews shows the users that closed prs by username, but our company usernames are nonsensical letters and numbers in GitHub Enterprise Cloud, so it's not helpful. |
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+1 for this feature! |
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Agree completely. In organizations it's not really productive to read "K43234 has approved this PR" |
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+1 |
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right |
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100% agree |
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+1 |
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+1. I love my username, but I imagine most people within my organization would rather see my actual name. |
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Surprised this isn't an option yet. It creates more work for the users just to have to create new accounts with a certain username just so it can display correctly. And if your username is already taken, you're out of luck |
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+1 Migrated the code from GitLab to GitHub and this is a major issue for us. Please fix. |
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Hi, As a workaround, I have created an extension WebEdit Pro - (Chrome extension, Edge addon) that can replace the user name with the desired full name. Let's say usernames are random alphanumeric strings K43234, K43235 & so on. Imagine there are 100 users under that repository with auto-generated alphanumeric IDs and whenever there is something happened in the repo. we will see "K43234 committed a new change" With the above chrome extension & mapping as follows, K43234 -> "John" The result would be: I added capabilities to perform bulk edit (like in Postman), it is easy to add hundreds of username mapping at once One can get the username and full name from the people or Teams tab, 
and use notepad, regex to format the username and full name as expected by the extension. It is just one time work though. here is the repo link if you are interested to see the code & video link on how to use |
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I suffer for that pain. I need to hover the username so I know who did a commit or something. Our usernames are of that style "K65GT4" |
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Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but this seems close: https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-organization-settings/managing-the-display-of-member-names-in-your-organization It displays the profile name next to the username in several places. Org-level configuration |
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Yes, It does help to some extent, but doesn't feel convenient. |
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Agree completely. |
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We struggle daily with this as we have people from other teams at work contributing to our code base and we don't know who they are when we look through pull requests |
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GitHub often encourages users to submit feature requests or suggestions through their official channels. You can submit your feature request directly through the GitHub feedback form, which is accessible through your GitHub account. #10285 |
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3000% agree on display name versus username. For organization that using "code" for their username, this is kind of weirdest thing on earth. |
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it is a most needed feature |
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Hello, as mentioned by others in this thread, it would be appreciated to be able to customize your personal "display name" on a per-organization level. Thank you! |
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+1 on this needing to be addressed. Just had a very hectic stand-up as scrum master where I spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out who "Big-Daddy-1" is on the team. |
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Lover of BioShock or Adam Sandler movies? =D |
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I am using this text replacing extension that I created WebEdit Pro - (Chrome extension, Edge addon) It solves the issue. One can get the username and full name from the people or Teams tab, of the repo page
and use notepad, regex to format the username and full name as expected by the extension. It is just one time work. |
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I can only second what is being said on this topic. It is annoying that we need to resolve this issue with the help of a browser extension. |
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Per the discussion and suggestion here, it seems like a lot of workplaces have developers use their personal github accounts in their organization, but there is no way to have github display the "Name" part of your profile by default.
This would be a fantastic addition and helpful in many organizations.
Perhaps if there were a per-repository or per-organization "preference" for what name to display by default?
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