Co-Authored-by email address not configurable/not primary

[robotdana]

Issue Type: Bug

When logging in with github with VS Live Share to join a Live Share session, it seems to use the first email in your github account rather than the primary email to populate the Co-Authored-By in git scm tool, and doesn't appear to give you any way to change it.

This is annoying because the first email is contains my deadname, i just keep it there because it links my github account to old commits. I don't want it to be seen by collaborators, and I don't want to be surprised by it.

Please allow defining/customising what email/name to use for a live share session for the Co-Authored-By, and either allow setting a default. or at the very least use the primary email address from the github account rather than one of possibly many irrelevant email addresses. Thanks.

Extension version: 1.0.1891
VS Code version: Code 1.43.2 (0ba0ca52957102ca3527cf479571617f0de6ed50, 2020-03-24T07:34:57.037Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 19.3.0

[Moniarchy]

Thanks for opening this issue, @robotdana. Adding @fubaduba.

[mfulton26]

I was just about to report almost the same thing. In my case, I have my work email address associated with the GitHub organization we use for work. If I am participating in a Live Share for a repository in that org it would be great to default to using my work email address, otherwise it could use my primary email address (or ask me).

[fubaduba]

Thank you for bringing this up. This seems like an easy enough update for us and we will make this change. Thank you!

[fredrikaverpil]

@fubaduba yessss!!!

[derekbekoe]

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