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Claude's contributions graph is interesting. What is going on here? Does Claude Code commit as itself sometimes, but extremely rarely? I don't understand. http

Claude's contributions graph is interesting. What is going on here? Does Claude Code commit as itself sometimes, but extremely rarely? I don't understand. https://github.com/claude https://github.com/claude

handfuloflight 1y ago
If you ask it to commit it'll sign itself as the author.
- consumer451 1y ago
  But then, how are there so few commits in its profile graph? I suppose I may be admitting my ignorance of how public GitHub works, but still curious.
  - handfuloflight 1y ago
    Oh no it's not done through that account. Seems to be some sort of ephemeral account scoped to the repo.
    - baobun 1y ago
      What's in authour/commit meta is orthogonal to which github.com account you are actually using. Anyone can commit as anyone as long as you have any way to push and if you want better than that you need signed commits. There are no "ephemeral accounts" in play here.
      - handfuloflight 1y ago
        Right, that was my intended meaning of ephemeral accounts.
  - eddythompson80 1y ago
    I was guessing Anthropic asked them to turn it off. Though why not also ask to delete the old activity of the person you bought the account from? Like: https://github.com/fotinakis/swagger-blocks/issues/3 https://github.com/fotinakis/swagger-blocks/issues/3
    - notpushkin 1y ago
      Whoa.
    - darkwater 1y ago
      Wow! Now I wonder how many bucks they paid for it. Because for sure they didn't DMCAed their way to own that account, right? Right?
  - numpad0 1y ago
    git require name and email to commit, but there's no cryptography involved there. Maybe GitHub won't green the lawn for unverified third party commits included in pushed commits?
    - DougBTX 1y ago
      For a little while someone added Claude’s noreply email address to their account, so their profile started appearing alongside private repo commits!
- sneak 1y ago
  I don’t understand why we are personifying AI. They’re inanimate tools. My commits don’t credit my keyboard.
  - handfuloflight 1y ago
    Might be less personification and more a figure of speech.

handfuloflight 1y ago

If you ask it to commit it'll sign itself as the author.

consumer451 1y ago
But then, how are there so few commits in its profile graph? I suppose I may be admitting my ignorance of how public GitHub works, but still curious.
- handfuloflight 1y ago
  Oh no it's not done through that account. Seems to be some sort of ephemeral account scoped to the repo.
  - baobun 1y ago
    What's in authour/commit meta is orthogonal to which github.com account you are actually using. Anyone can commit as anyone as long as you have any way to push and if you want better than that you need signed commits. There are no "ephemeral accounts" in play here.
    - handfuloflight 1y ago
      Right, that was my intended meaning of ephemeral accounts.
- eddythompson80 1y ago
  I was guessing Anthropic asked them to turn it off. Though why not also ask to delete the old activity of the person you bought the account from? Like: https://github.com/fotinakis/swagger-blocks/issues/3 https://github.com/fotinakis/swagger-blocks/issues/3
  - notpushkin 1y ago
    Whoa.
  - darkwater 1y ago
    Wow! Now I wonder how many bucks they paid for it. Because for sure they didn't DMCAed their way to own that account, right? Right?
- numpad0 1y ago
  git require name and email to commit, but there's no cryptography involved there. Maybe GitHub won't green the lawn for unverified third party commits included in pushed commits?
  - DougBTX 1y ago
    For a little while someone added Claude’s noreply email address to their account, so their profile started appearing alongside private repo commits!
sneak 1y ago
I don’t understand why we are personifying AI. They’re inanimate tools. My commits don’t credit my keyboard.
- handfuloflight 1y ago
  Might be less personification and more a figure of speech.