Tracked emails

Git stamps every commit with the email in your local config. If that is not the email you sign in to Clocktopus with, the commit arrives with nobody to attach it to and no entry is created.

Tracked emails are the list of addresses that count as you.

Find out which email your commits use

git config user.email

Run it in a repository you actually work in — a repo-local user.email overrides the global one, which is exactly the case that catches people out.

Add it

Go to Settings → Git webhook, find the Tracked emails section, and add the address.

Add as many as you need. A work laptop, a personal machine and a users.noreply.github.com address are three different authors as far as git is concerned, and all three can point at you.

From then on, commits from that address are linked to your account automatically.

Pushes that arrived before the address was tracked are not reprocessed — the commits were skipped at delivery and stay skipped. They are visible in the webhook log as unmatched emails, which is the quickest way to spot an address you have forgotten. To recover that time, log it by hand.