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Currently you'd read quite a lot of: "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>"

Ah, co-authored, but that's different thing, isn't it?

Tbh I only know it from squashed PRs.

However:

"Co-author" is not a git concept. It is a convention in commit messages used by some services, including GitHub. So, the solution is to edit the actual commit message with git commit --amend and add a line to the end:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/64311381

It's a door opened by git (interpret-trailers), walked through by GitHub with the Co-authored-by key and UI support, GitLab followed.

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