Why does bitbucket show the wrong userid for my commits?

[David Karr]

I created a new Bitbucket project and repo.  I cloned the empty project, dumped a codebase into it, committed it, and pushed to the server, using the Eclipse Egit interface.  This all worked fine, but I noticed in the commits list on the Bitbucket web site, the "Author" column was not my regular login uid, but a "service account" that I've created for some purposes in the past. I checked my "git config" (both repository and global), and there is nothing that refers to that service account. There is also nothing in my Eclipse preferences that I can find that refers to this service account.

I later made another change on a branch, pushed to that branch, created a pull request, and merged that pull request. The "Author" notations for those changes are almost all correct, using my actual name and userid, only the commits have the wrong userid.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Is the service account linked to your email address by any chance?

[David Karr]

Yes, I finally determined today that since Bitbucket is using LDAP, and both my service account and my regular userid are associated with my email address, it's just semi-randomly picking a userid to associate with my email address.  Is there a straightforward way to make it always associate my email address with my regular userid?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

I do not think so. Still an open issue: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BSERV-4603