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VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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Post by opello »

jdlshore wrote: post #501
mplanchard wrote: post #491

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean they aren’t part of the commit message? Trailers like (signed off by) are absolutely part of the message. Tools can choose to treat them as special metadata, but they’re part of the commit. The docs for the function to interpret trailers even says this explicitly: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-interpret-trailers > Add or parse structured information in commit messages

I mean that they’re not necessarily part of the --message parameter to `git commit`, but instead part of the --trailer parameter. I don’t know how VSCode is programmed, but it seems plausible that trailers are handled separately from the message parameter. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit

It seems like it would be most reasonable to consider porcelain vs. plumbing command details in deciding if something is logically distinct to Git. git-commit has --message and --trailer options, git-commit-tree has a --message option. I take that as trailer is a convenience option to provide a consistent way to append those details to the commit message. But that doesn't mean it's not part of the commit message, nor that the user shouldn't see it while reviewing the commit message.

Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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Post by deaux »

wiseowise wrote: post #758
deaux wrote: post #504

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That's fine, just know that you permanently forfeit any right to complain about others doing things for personal gain that indirectly harm yourself. > I want to live a good life, and provide for my family. This is a lie you're telling yourself, you can do both just fine without building the torment nexus. Billions of people do so indeed. > I want to get rich too. You should've stopped here, but then it became too muc…

> Billions of people do so indeed. Are they? I seriously doubt billions of people earn 200k+ salaries.

Which is why the quoted part above it said "I want to live a good life, and provide for my family.", which billions of people do indeed.

Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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Post by deaux »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #615
deaux wrote: post #504

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That's fine, just know that you permanently forfeit any right to complain about others doing things for personal gain that indirectly harm yourself. > I want to live a good life, and provide for my family. This is a lie you're telling yourself, you can do both just fine without building the torment nexus. Billions of people do so indeed. > I want to get rich too. You should've stopped here, but then it became too muc…

> you can do both just fine without building the torment nexus Doubt. You don't become truly wealthy without doing what sociopathic CEOs do on a daily basis. Society actively rewards that stuff, and it's only getting worse with time. > Simple lack of morals, impaired empathy and remorse. Sounds like a winning strategy to me. That's the exact sort of person this world rewards. Things are not looking good out there. Bi…

> Doubt. You don't become truly wealthy without doing what sociopathic CEOs do on a daily basis. Society actively rewards that stuff, and it's only getting worse with time.

I'm sorry but this is really basic reading skills. I quoted "have a good life and provide for family", then "both" refers to "have a good life" and "provide for family".

> Sounds like a winning strategy to me. That's the exact sort of person this world rewards.

Winning in what? Winning in becoming a disgusting person? Definitely. That tends to be the direct opposite of what people want to become though, for good reason. It's also what causes the most deathbed regret.

Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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Post by deaux »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #852
golf_mike wrote: post #774

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And your reasoning is exactly what makes it a winning strategy. "If other people do it, then why not me?" That makes it that they are no longer other people, you yourself are a part of that group now. One could argue that it is an even worse position. It literally makes you an enabler of the problem you see in the world, while at the same time you acknowledge it as an even existential problem. When we are with billio…

> If other people do it, then why not me? Yeah. At some point you get tired of paying the costs that others sociopathically push onto you and start trying to take at least some of the value for yourself instead. If society has a problem with that, then maybe it should start demonstrating it by making examples out of all those sociopaths instead of turning the other way and quietly profiting from it while the nobodies…

> If society has a problem with that, then maybe it should start demonstrating it by making examples out of all those sociopaths instead of turning the other way and quietly profiting from it while the nobodies seethe impotently about things they have no power to change.

You are the society.

> I was actually fine taking the moral high road... Until a couple years ago. What changed? I got married. Got people depending on me now. So my patience and empathy for people who are not literally paying my bills is indeed starting to wear a bit thin.

This is just an awful excuse. People depending on you is the norm, has been for all of history of humankind and remains so to this day. That's literally human life, people depending on each other. Out of all the good people in this world even at this moment who happen to be adult men, I'd wager 80% of them has had a dependent. Historically, it will have been 99.9%.

I'm happy to talk as someone who also has dependents - again, as is the global societal norm for adult men in particular (prime HN demographic) and has been since forever - and who clearly shares your view on many things about modern society, yet doesn't turn it into an excuse to help build the torment nexus.

Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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Post by layla5alive »

dylan604 wrote: post #457
drivers99 wrote: post #379

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> Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards It's a tangential point, but I turned on System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Increase Contrast (the on/off option, not Display Contrast) and now at least the windows are outlined sharply.

The "Differentiate wihout color" is one I like. All of the on/off sliders now have a 1 or 0 to indicate on/off

Funny, didn't iOS have that like 15 years ago, before they probably removed it?

Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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Post by alxndr »

Pay08 wrote: post #690
yankohr wrote: post #84

This feels like the modern version of 'Sent from my iPhone' but much more invasive. Git commits are legal and technical records. Falsifying who authored a piece of code just to pump up AI usage stats is a huge breach of trust and it is disappointing to see Microsoft prioritize branding over the integrity of the developer's log. I expect my IDE to record what happened, not what the marketing department wants people to…

I've never heard of git commits being used in a legal case, do you have any examples?

I’ve had to talk to company lawyers about specific commits. Case was settled afaik

Re: VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

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Post by throw_await »

rmunn wrote: post #865
throw_await wrote: post #838

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Why does it say "microsoft" locked the thread?

Because the `microsoft` group account is the owner of the repo. With group accounts, you can designate many individuals to have admin access to the repo, but the actions taken by those admins will be attributed to the group account that owns the repo. (Because presumably the rest of the admins agree with the action taken, otherwise they would undo/revert it).

Thank you
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