PSA: Github uses your profile name as your git commit author

Monday, the 16th of February 2026

PSA: GitHub uses your profile name as your git commit author when doing git operations from the GitHub Web UI.

I discovered this after I saw the only commits by "Mohammad Rafiq" (what it's set to in my git config) were when I pushed directly to a default branch, and all the commits from squashed and merged PRs said "rafiq". The horror!