# GitHub comment impersonation
**URL:** https://community.exalate.com/t/github-comment-impersonation/4293
**Category:** General Questions
**Tags:** cloud-github, migrated\_question
**Created:** [November 4, 2024, 6:45am UTC](https://community.exalate.com/t/github-comment-impersonation/4293 "2024-11-04T06:45:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@xl8bot](https://community.exalate.com/u/xl8bot)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2024, 6:45am UTC](https://community.exalate.com/t/github-comment-impersonation/4293/1 "2024-11-04T06:45:26Z")
_Originally asked by Guilherme Duarte on 28 July 2020 [(original question)](https://oldcommunity.exalate.com/questions/11341030)_
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Is it possible to impersonate comments on GitHub during import from an external source?
I’ve tried the documented methods but with no luck… Source: [Github Cloud](https://oldcommunity.exalate.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2588958)_(old community)_
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### Author:  [@xl8bot](https://community.exalate.com/u/xl8bot)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2024, 6:45am UTC](https://community.exalate.com/t/github-comment-impersonation/4293/2 "2024-11-04T06:45:27Z")
_Answer by Ariel Aguilar on 14 July 2021_
Hi Guilherme,
The best you could do since there is a limitation with the Proxy user on Github, the name cannot be modified. Then, you can impersonate the author on comments as you add an indicator string. So yo could do:
```auto
issue.comments = commentHelper.mergeComments(issue, replica,
{
comment ->
comment.body =
"[" + comment.author.email + "] " +
comment.body + "\n"
}
)
//This will help to add a reference from the email/author coming from Jira on each GitHub comment.
```
Kind regards,
Ariel
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