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		Gigachad on Feb 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to take credit for someone else's work on GitH... Because we exist in the real world with real constraints. We have only two options, allow people to stick their name on others commits, or have unverified emails just show plainly. Neither of these is ideal but at least the second one never tells lies.

rezonant on March 1, 2022 [–]

This- if the commit is unsigned, then just show what the commit says. Don't "enhance" the commit in an even more insecure way than the "original sin"

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