Changing push email for GitHub

Question

I want to push commits to GitHub and followed the directions from How to Use Git/GitHub with R. Unfortunately, I ran into issues running the following code as my personal email is private.

library(usethis)
use_git_config(user.name  = "MyUserName", 
               user.email = "[email protected]")

I have attempted to change my personal email to the public one provided by GitHub two ways. First, using:

use_git_config(user.name  = "MyUserName", 
               user.email = "{ID}+{username}@users.noreply.github.com")

Second, by changing my email in the terminal:

git config --global user.email "{ID}+{username}@users.noreply.github.com"
git config --global --list

The latter line does show that the email was correctly updated.

I've also restarted R/RStudio, but I still get the same error messages when I try to push the commit. Error message:

remote: error: GH007: Your push would publish a private email address.        
remote: You can make your email public or disable this protection by visiting:        
remote: https://github.com/settings/emails        
To https://github.com/repository
 ! [remote rejected] HEAD -> main (push declined due to email privacy restrictions)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/repository'

What can I do to resolve this issue?

tnt · Accepted Answer · 2025-10-14 12:29:24Z

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It turned out the issue was that the commit was still tied to my personal email, so I uncommitted my changes in the terminal (see this answer), and then redid the commit and push in RStudio.

answered Oct 14, 2025 at 12:29

tnt

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