From fd54d8a4386a736156bcb1bb6aee558e311f507b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:51:19 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] meta: add note about email sync to CONTRIBUTING.md
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16340
Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Yuta Hiroto <hello@about-hiroppy.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16339#issuecomment-338240029
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 2336deb7282285..2f63dd29d79346 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -242,6 +242,10 @@ who you are:
 $ git config --global user.name "J. Random User"
 $ git config --global user.email "j.random.user@example.com"
 ```
+Please make sure this local email is also added to your
+[GitHub email list](https://github.com/settings/emails) so that your commits
+will be properly associated with your account and you will be promoted
+to Contributor once your first commit is landed.
 
 #### Step 1: Fork