Typical Microsoft! Turns Out VS Code Was Adding Copilot as a Git Co-Author Without Telling Anyone

VS Code has been quietly appending a Co-authored-by: Copilot line to users’ git commits, including ones written entirely without Copilot’s involvement. The culprit behind this, git.addAICoAuthor, is a feature that was introduced in VS Code 1.110 back in March. It is designed to tag commits with a Copilot co-author trailer when AI-generated code is involved, and it launched with off as the default. So far good, right? 🙂 That changed, Read More