GitHub Copilot silently inserts itself as a co-author
🏷️ Discussion Type Product Feedback 💬 Feature/Topic Area VS Code Body I want to report a serious issue with GitHub Copilot’s commit message generation workflow. GitHub Copilot inserted the followin...
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GitHub Community Overview Repositories Discussions Packages People More Overview Repositories Discussions Packages People GitHub Copilot silently inserts itself as a co-author after I manually replaced the generated commit message #194075 Unanswered yangyijie912 asked this question in Copilot Conversations GitHub Copilot silently inserts itself as a co-author after I manually replaced the generated commit message #194075 yangyijie912 Apr 27, 2026 · 20 comments · 7 replies Return to top Discussion options Uh oh! There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. {{title}} Something went wrong. Uh oh! There was an error while loading. Please reload this page.
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