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Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

Hacker News · May 6, 2026, 3:15 AM

Key takeaways

  • In 1.110, we added a setting to add Copilot as coauthor in commit messages by appending Co-authored-by: Copilot copilot@github.com.
  • The default value of the setting was off.
  • In 1.117 (public rollout started 4/22), we changed the setting default to all.

In 1.110, we added a setting to add Copilot as coauthor in commit messages by appending Co-authored-by: Copilot copilot@github.com. The setting git.addAICoAuthor has three different values:

The default value of the setting was off.

In 1.117 (public rollout started 4/22), we changed the setting default to all. There was a bug in the code that was not found in testing that attributed non-Copilot code completions to Copilot. This resulted in commit messages containing Co-authored-by: Copilot copilot@github.com even when the disableAIfeatures setting was turned on. This issue is tracked in #313064.

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