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Re: by moritzwarhier on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @11:38AM (#47049436)
So who authored your comment?

What would you put into the commit message fields if it were a git commit?

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Re: by funkattack on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:58PM (#47054637)
Currently you'd read quite a lot of: "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>"
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Re: by moritzwarhier on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @12:58PM (#47063978)
Ah, co-authored, but that's different thing, isn't it?

Tbh I only know it from squashed PRs.

However:

> "Co-author" is not a git concept. It is a convention in commit messages used by some services, including GitHub. So, the solution is to edit the actual commit message with git commit --amend and add a line to the end:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/64311381

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Re: by funkattack on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:02PM (#47067623)
It's a door opened by git (interpret-trailers), walked through by GitHub with the Co-authored-by key and UI support, GitLab followed.
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