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Created: 2025-05-14 11:31
Last edited: 2025-06-08 00:07

Anonymous GitHub repo

Purpose

Have a peer review version of a repo on GitHub w/o publishing stuff on main account where it might draw attention and already get stars etc.

Requirements

• separate GitHub account (yourmail+foo@gmail.com)
• separate SSH key
• a ~/.ssh/config with contents like

Host github-as-anon
    HostName github.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_anongithub
    IdentitiesOnly yes

Setup

• create new repo on GitHub
• local
  • $ cd my/anonymous/repo
  • $ git init
  • $ git config user.name "anonymous"
  • $ git config user.email "anony@mous"
  • $ git add -A
  • $ git commit -m 'init'
  • $ git remote add origin git@github-as-anon:user/repo.git
    • NOTE: in above, the host is changed from github.com to github-as-anon as set up in the SSH config
  • $ git push -u origin master