Add a Git co-author credit with “Co-authored-by” in your commit message

• Tagged with git, github
• Posted 9 May 2019

If you add the following lines to your commit message, the GitHub UI will show them as co-authors:

Co-authored-by: your name <your git email>
Co-authored-by: your co-author <their email>

I have a ;co snippet for this.

References:

• Indu Alagarsamy’s tweet where I saw this
• The GitHub blog post about the feature