Improve support for Co-authors

43 votes

GitHub has support for special annotations in commit messages to give credit to other co-authors who worked on the commit (see https://docs.github.com/en/github/committing-changes-to-your-project/creating-and-editing-commits/creating-a-commit-with-multiple-authors ). This is quite common when doing pairing or ensemble programming (aka mob-programming).

GitKraken supports some of that feature, and shows multiple avatars for commits authored by multiple people.

Adding the data to the commit message is tedious and error-prone, so I would love to have to help from the UI, and having for instance :
- a button somewhere to add a co-author to my commit
- maybe a way to look up co-authors from GitHub or from the list of authors of the current repo

Possible alternative : allow to add to a commit message "saved snippets" to quickly add a piece of text to a commit message. I could have created a bunch of snippets with the "co-author" of my coworkers and use it to quickly insert it.

Under consideration Integration Quality of Life Suggested by: Thibaud D. (15 Jun, '21) • Upvoted: 08 Apr • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

07 Jul, '21
Max Moldmann
I like the "select co-author" idea.
But text snippets is probably something one can instead use a 3rd party Clipboard Manager.
02 Dec, '21
Lewis Moten
I've setup my commit template in the past for some projects using multiple authors.

Prefix people you usually work with using hash tags

```
#Co-authored-by: Jan <jan@email>
#Co-authored-by: Joe <joe@email>
```

When `Jan` works with you, remove the octothorpe

GitKraken removes lines prefixed with pound signs when you commit.
18 May, '22
Francis
I think this is really important - when rebasing, or squashing, or cherrypicking (with conflicts to resolve), the original authorship gets lost. I'd really appreciate some improved support for coauthoring so that work attribution is preserved.