Issue 1766: gerrit-review.googlesource.com refuses non gmail address
Status:  WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed:  Jan 2013
Reported by darkwint...@gmail.com, Jan 22, 2013

> What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Create an account (will be forced to use gmail login)
2. Register user@some.other.domain and set it as primary
3. git push

> What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


should accept commits with the newly registered email.
does not.

remote: ERROR:  In commit 123123
remote: ERROR:  committer email address user@some.other.domain
remote: ERROR:  does not match your user account.
remote: ERROR:
remote: ERROR:  The following addresses are currently registered:
remote: ERROR:    thisisnotreallytheaddress@gmail.com
remote: ERROR:
remote: ERROR:  To register an email address, please visit:
remote: ERROR:  https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/settings/contact
remote: 

Jan 22, 2013
#1 sop@google.com
Is user@some.other.domain an alternate email address of the gmail account you used?
Status: AwaitingInformation
Labels: Environment-Google
Jan 23, 2013
#2 darkwint...@gmail.com
only the domain part.

primary gmail address:   abc@gmail.com
secondary gmail address: def@my.name.com
primary gerrit address:  ghi@my.name.com


so the answer is no.
Jan 24, 2013
#3 darkwint...@gmail.com
Today i could upload stuff. Did something change?

I noticed the change header contains my g+ name, which is not my full name but an abbreviation,  while the actual commit contains my real name.
Jan 24, 2013
#4 sop@google.com
There is a cache cycle of ~15 minutes between adding the email and when it will be available during git push. You probably ran into that yesterday.

As for the name, Gerrit is indeed pulling your name from your G+ profile if you have G+ enabled on your account. Nothing I can do about that, the G+ name store is the only place I have to get a friendly name for an account.

The name in the commit meanwhile was generated on your workstation, and we allow any name, we just enforce the email address to be a highly likely to be your email address, such has having verified it.
Status: WontFix