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[-] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago

I write my own shell scripts and ruby on rails, but I ask Claude to create branches, manage commits, do all the force pushed to update it all, keep my local copy up to date, do all the things with the git origin etc. So Claude shows up as a contributor but didn’t do any of the work.

I’m fine with that though because I’ve destroyed git history so many times, or messed up commits and broken everything, or needed to do some complex invert paths thing. It’s just better to leave all that to Claude.

[-] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 day ago

It's such a nice treat when I don't see it on a new project, especially on Microsoft's GitHub.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All it takes to remove Claude attribution is something like this

git filter-branch -f --msg-filter 'sed "/Claude/d"'

That's before realising things like DeepSeek don't add the trailer

Be pleased that people are generally not trying to hide it, but also don't trust its absence, look at the commit patterns

[-] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

It’s a setting in Claude code, you are able to disable the trailer automatically

[-] cx40@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

How does Claude attribution appear in the first place? I've written code with it before and it never shows up in GitHub.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

If you tell Claude to commit for you it adds it then

Which highlights another situation of people telling it to let them handle the committing

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 6 points 1 day ago

Do you let Claude write your commit messages?

The reason I do is because it makes the agents more capable of working with the code in the future, they put more info into the commit messages than I do and when they look back the commit messages help them navigate the change history better.

Also, if you see a commit message that just looks whacked, completely missing the actual objective - that might be a Claude hallucination.

[-] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

do you need clauds help in the bathroom too?

maybe it needs that data about you too to understand you better

[-] xmo748@programming.dev -2 points 15 hours ago

You must not be working professionally.

[-] bignose@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Working professionals are, if at all competent to be committing code to a professional code base, entirely capable of writing their own commit messages.

If they can't write the commit message, they can't sufficiently explain in writing the commit they just made to anyone. So, they should not be working professionally on a code base.

If they are capable of writing the commit message with their own understanding in their own words, but they choose not to communicate their understanding in the commit message? Also disqualifying, they should not be working professionally on a code base. Human communication is essential to this work.

That this is a controversial position, is a clear sign of the Slopocalypse.

[-] xmo748@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Now I definitely know you haven't seen a real professional codebase. Professional git repos are full of one sentence commit messages with little to no explanation of what's in the change set.

Humans suck at communication, especially when there's pressure to get product features out the door. AI driven repos are full of beautifully summarized commits with clear explanations of architectural choices, change motivation, etc.

[-] bignose@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

Now I definitely know you haven’t seen a real professional codebase.

Extremely wrong. So much for your assumptions.

Professional git repos are full of one sentence commit messages with little to no explanation of what’s in the change set.

Yes, humans can communicate poorly, of course. But people letting the LLMs do it do not understand what is in the change, and the LLM certainly doesn't. There's no one at all to ask because no one understands what was changed or why.

I'll take “sometimes lazy but they wrote it and their understanding of it can be interrogated”, all week.

[-] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

I used to put messages into my commits “if anyone reads this and messages me, I will give you $5”

Only one has ever been noticed by a coworker and that was like 5+ years after I made the commit

[-] cx40@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

If I ask an LLM to do something, the commit message is usually just the prompt. If it's for code I wrote myself, my process is to take the message, read it over, then edit appropriately before running git commit myself. It seems that this last step is what does it.

[-] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I definitely do. But yeah a lot of people on GH are worried about employability and a big part of that is showing you're down with big corpo tech.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is with great pride that I can say that a GCP-HPC pure-bash application I've been working is completely AI free.

For the interested, it's something I was working on while bored at work has been blessed as good use of time for the benefit of our dry lab. I'm hoping to be allowed to open source it. It's basically a git-like interface between GCP head nodes and GCP buckets

[-] Carrot@lemmy.today 4 points 22 hours ago

I've been working on a fully open source Obsidian Notes clone for over a year, and now that the decompilation AI tool just dropped I'm not sure people will believe me when I say I didn't use AI

[-] gTsintzas@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago

I'm seeing Claude as a contributor all the time in random repos, but like, how does that even happen? In my experience with "agentic" coding, the agent does not get credit for commits, even if all diffs were made by them. What kind of workflows do people have for Claude to credit itself in a commit?

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 27 points 1 day ago

Claude has established precedent that Claude credits itself on commits unless you direct it not to. I don't fight it, I would rather people looking back know... Yes, I used this tool - no, it's not "responsible" for the code, I am.

[-] Supercrunchy@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

Same for me, but that's because I have a rule saying to the claude to not interact with git unless instructed, and I commit manually after reviewing every line of code changed. The bot runs in its own container, isolated from all credentials, so it can't push commits and can't access production. I also hate that the super long commit messages, so I just want to write it myself.

Basically if you are surrenderinf your entire PC to AI, then you'll not get those commit messages authored by claude.

All my colleagues instead gave it access to the whole work pc including ssh keys, and the bot can do whatever the fuck it wants with the whole repo on github. It co-authors every single commit. Our master branch pushed straight to prod, and is not protected, and all our team is repo admin anyway. It's complete insanity, bordering criminal negligence.

[-] malwieder@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

GitHub parses "Co-authored-by" trailers Claude Code adds to all its commits by default.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I have seen commits that were coauthored or something.
Maybe the official AI plugin makes github able to sign a commit by two entities?

[-] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

you have the butthole profile pic??

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