meta: add note about email sync to CONTRIBUTING.md

PR-URL: nodejs#16340 Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Yuta Hiroto <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <[email protected]> Refs: nodejs#16339 (comment)
shisama · Oct 21, 2017 · 6d4c685 · 6d4c685
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@@ -242,6 +242,10 @@ who you are:
 $ git config --global user.name "J. Random User"
 $ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
 ```
+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.
 
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