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Comment by otterley

2 months ago

I would have expected people (maybe a small minority, but that includes myself) to have already instructed Claude to do this. It’s a trivial instruction to add to your CLAUDE.md file.

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tacone  2 months ago

It doesn't work so well in my experience. I am currently wrapping (or asking the LLM to wrap) the commit message prompt in a script call.

   1. the LLM is instructed on how to write a commit message and never include co-authorship
   2. the LLM is asked to produce a commit message
   3. the LLM output is parsed by a script which removes co-authorship if the LLM chooses to include it nevertheless

  • tacone  2 months ago

    Also for future reference, Copilot - specifically - includes a configuration flag to toggle the co-authorship (see `copilot help config`):

    > `includeCoAuthoredBy`: whether to instruct the agent to add a Co-authored-by trailer to git commits; defaults to `true`.

    This means that, if you don't explicitely configure otherwise, the LLM is specifically instructed to include co-authorship in its higher level instructions.

dboreham  2 months ago

I always assumed that if I tried to tell it, that it'd say "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that"

  • lawrjone  2 months ago

    We use CC to power some of our code features and override this setting so we can provide our own attribution. So there are several legit reasons to permit this.

schappim  2 months ago

I guess our system prompt didn't work. If folks are having to add it manually into their own Claude.md files...

  • schappim  2 months ago

    Typo from speech to text, corrected: “I guess Anthropic’s system prompt didn't work. If folks are having to add it manually into their own Claude.md files...”

  • otterley  2 months ago

    My mistake - it was the configuration setting that did it. Nevertheless, you can control many other aspects of its behavior by tuning the CLAUDE.md prompt.