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Since showing what `git log` actually contains is the definition of 'accurate', I'm not sure what you mean. They aren't "delegated commits", it's the nature of distributed version control: Github's copy of the repo doesn't get to claim special authority over other copies.

I would define accurate as a combination of 'git log' and which account pushed to github. As it is, github seems to treat these commits differently (they aren't showing up on the other users' pages...at least as far as I can tell) so it seems like something that should be indicated in this UI as well.

Since showing what `git log` actually contains is the definition of 'accurate',

That's a non-standard definition of the term.

In a git repo, history is shown with `git log`, so when I ask GitHub to show me the history of the repo, it ought to match `git log`. That's not "non-standard".

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