From 98769561c33e67e84c5d22ea35fed1fb4a9f32fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hadi <112569860+anotherhadi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:47:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add author.email in levenshtein distance for authors

Signed-off-by: Hadi <112569860+anotherhadi@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 github-recon/username/deep.go | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/github-recon/username/deep.go b/github-recon/username/deep.go
index d9751da..0f54c17 100644
--- a/github-recon/username/deep.go
+++ b/github-recon/username/deep.go
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ func DeepScan(s github_recon_settings.Settings) (response DeepScanResult) {
 							Name:        authorName,
 							Email:       authorEmail,
 							FoundIn:     []string{repoIdentifier},
-							Levenshtein: utils.LevenshteinDistance(s.Target, authorName),
+							Levenshtein: levenshteinDistanceAuthor(s.Target, authorName, authorEmail),
 						})
 						mapAuthorToIndex[trimmedLine] = len(authorOccurrences) - 1
 					}
@@ -380,3 +380,10 @@ func findEmailsAndOccurrencesInDir(rootPath string, username string) (Emails, er
 
 	return results, nil
 }
+
+func levenshteinDistanceAuthor(target, name, email string) int {
+	if strings.Contains(email, "@") {
+		email = strings.SplitN(email, "@", 2)[0]
+	}
+	return slices.Min([]int{utils.LevenshteinDistance(target, name), utils.LevenshteinDistance(target, email)})
+}