Microsoft is rolling back a change in Visual Studio Code’s Git tooling that automatically added an attribution crediting GitHub Copilot as a co-author in commits. Multiple reports describe cases where developers saw “Co-authored-by: Copilot” added to commit metadata even when they had not used the Copilot assistant, including situations where Copilot-related chat features were disabled. Developers and commentators criticized the behavior as inappropriate for professional workflows because the attribution can suggest AI involvement in code that the human authored.
According to the reports, Microsoft has responded by removing or reversing the default attribution so that Copilot is not credited by default in commits. The change is framed as a fix prompted by user complaints and concerns about accuracy and consent in commit authorship. The sources agree that the issue centered on VS Code’s Git extension behavior, not on a user manually adding the credit. The company’s adjustment aims to restore expected authorship metadata practices for developers using VS Code and Git.
