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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by nsagent on Sunday May 03, 2026 @12:00AM (#47993214)
Just for any future mea culpa, I'd recommend not hedging with comments like this one:

> As folks mentioned here - many similar tools do this as well.

It's really doubtful they have the same behavior people are complaining about here: namely including the authored by Copilot statement when it wasn't used (or even enabled).

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by sillysaurusx on Sunday May 03, 2026 @12:26AM (#47993335)
Anthropic does by default. I had to put “no co-authored by lines in commits, ever” into my global settings.

That’s pretty close to “included when it wasn’t used (or even enabled)” since it’s opt-in by default and you have to explicitly say no. It’s not even clear where to turn it off, I just rely on the AI to figure out not to do it.

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by jstanley on Sunday May 03, 2026 @04:07AM (#47994617)
Maybe I misunderstand you, how is Claude doing commits where you don't use Claude?

That is a very different case to VS Code which is something you can in fact use without Copilot.

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Re:VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits r... by lukan on Sunday May 03, 2026 @06:00AM (#47995336)
That is not what dmitriv claimed. He said this was a bug, the behavior should have been to add it only when AI was involved, which indeed, is what claude does by default.

(Both is not fine with me)

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