What would be cool is committing AI-generated code under a different author, so even the git history shows immediately "who" made the changes in question.
And maybe, just maybe, git should allow for more than one author for commits; not just because of AI.
Distributed backend specialist. Perfectly happy playing second fiddle—it means I get to chase fun ideas, dodge meetings, and break things no one told me to touch, all without anyone questioning it. 😇
That's exactly what the Co-authored-by line is—it's been there for as long as I can remember. I just re-purposed it and added similar ones for different "categories" of contribution.
Also, you could theoretically set up auto-commits with some VS Code settings and really good instructions. Copilot custom agents (formerly chat modes) could be handy for this, too.
Copilot coding agent accounts for the commits you're referencing, today. 😀 I show up as a co-author because it worked based on my prompt or comments for each step except the first where it's instructions came directly from GitHub.
Co-authored-by is a nice workaround, but it's not really filling the gap entirely. It'd be a lot more convenient if git properly supported multiple authors rather than expecting tools to be aware of a loose convention.
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What would be cool is committing AI-generated code under a different author, so even the git history shows immediately "who" made the changes in question.
And maybe, just maybe, git should allow for more than one author for commits; not just because of AI.
That's exactly what the
Co-authored-byline is—it's been there for as long as I can remember. I just re-purposed it and added similar ones for different "categories" of contribution.Also, you could theoretically set up auto-commits with some VS Code settings and really good instructions. Copilot custom agents (formerly chat modes) could be handy for this, too.
Copilot coding agent accounts for the commits you're referencing, today. 😀 I show up as a co-author because it worked based on my prompt or comments for each step except the first where it's instructions came directly from GitHub.
Here's an example:
Co-authored-byis a nice workaround, but it's not really filling the gap entirely. It'd be a lot more convenient if git properly supported multiple authors rather than expecting tools to be aware of a loose convention.