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Contributions when merging accounts #11082

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What feature or product is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/merging-multiple-user-accounts

What is the new or expected behavior?

This is for the article about merging user accounts. A user has a great suggestion to add information about making sure your commits are attributed to the destination account by adding the committer email address from the old account.

It would be a new step, step 4. Something like:

If any commits were made with your email address from the original account, add that address to the remaining account to ensure your contributions are attributed to this account.

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