GitHub Actions Bot Username and Email Address

author@junian.dev (Junian Triajianto) — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:09:12 +0700

When writing a GitHub workflow, you may want it to automatically commit changes.

To distinguish between commits made by humans and those made by bots, set the committer name and email address to the GitHub Actions Bot.

Here are the details:

Username: github-actions[bot]
Email: 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com

You can configure these details for git with:

git config --global user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config --global user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"

Here is an example workflow step that commits and pushes changes if any files have been modified:

How to Set the Default GitHub Branch to 'master'

author@junian.dev (Junian Triajianto) — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:27:54 +0700

Consider this scenario where you create a new Git repository using the command-line tool.

$ mkdir new-repo
$ cd new-repo
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/junian/new-repo/.git/
$ touch README.md
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "Init"
[master (root-commit) d088569] Init
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 README.md
$ git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean

As you can see, the git CLI still defaults to the master branch. I respect that and am fine with it.

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GitHub Actions Bot Username and Email Address

How to Set the Default GitHub Branch to 'master'