There is a longer breakdown of the thread here: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/github_merges_useless_garbage_says/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/

There is a longer breakdown of the thread here: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/github_merges_useless_garbage_says/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/github_merges_useless... He also says: "But it also means proper authorship and committer information etc. All of which github entirely screws up." and they link back to an earlier complaint from him about that.