Where Does the Server Git Username Show Up on GitHub.com?

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To set my username in my webserver, I do:

git config --global user.name "GTS Joe"

For my email address, I go:

git config --global user.email "my@email.com"

My question is, where do I see these settings take effect on github.com? I have a couple of repos I've pushed live but don't see my server username there, all I see is my github.com username. So what does git config --global user.name "GTS Joe" do that can be viewed on github.com?

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user.name is the display name that will be shown on commits, as is user.email. However, Github displays your Github username instead of the commit user.name when user.email matches some registered user email.

If you push a commit with a non-registered email (i.e. a dummy one), it will instead display user.name you set and will not be a link to the user account.

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