Microsoft Fixes VS Code After Copilot Credited Human Code
The change follows developer complaints that Copilot credit was added even when AI features were disabled, and the fix returns the setting to opt-in in version 1.119.
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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 in April, when …
By default, Microsoft has activated a feature in the latest version of Visual Studio Code that automatically adds its IA Copilot as a co-author of Git commits. This decision, perceived as a forceful passage, triggered a wave of protests in the community of developers who denounce a loss of control. Fortunately, the function can be manually disabled in the settings.
A request sweater for VS Code is currently causing dissatisfaction on GitHub: it makes Copilot the default co-author of each commit message, provided that the IA tool has been used to modify a project using the VS Code programming software. Within the developer community, this has caused frustration, as well as some confusion on the subject. Several users complain that Copilot is also mentioned then...
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