Committer name/email

[rarkins]

Which name/email should be used for git commits?

• Hardcoded "renovate bot"?
• Configurable/overrideable setting?
• auto-retrieved somehow via GitHub API?

Although commercial services like Greenskeeper and Doppins "own" their commits, doing so in an open source tool like this would feel sleazy, unless it's only as a helpful default that's easily overridden.

I think - to avoid confusion - ideally it should be the same identity that:

• Authors git commits
• Pushes or updates branches to GitHub
• Raises Pull Requests

To avoid requiring configuration of the name/email for git, does the GitHub API support a "who am I?" type of query?

[rarkins]

Get user profile: https://developer.github.com/v3/users/