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Posted by ildari 20 hours ago

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag(archestra.ai)
471 points | 230 commentspage 6
syi0808 9 hours ago|
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petterroea 20 hours ago||
What I see is a (clever) hack, and GitHub continuing to provide good tools to its users.
skydhash 19 hours ago|
What I see is a solution for a problem that is self inflicted, meaning lumping contributors and generic internet users in the same workflow. In big projects, you have the core team, a handful of well known contributors, and everyone else.

I strongly prefer the git email model, where it’s often trivial to control the flow of changes proposal. GitHub does not have the same wealth of tools and versatility.

petterroea 17 hours ago||
I seem to have completely missed the "failing" when writing "this is GitHub failing to deliver tools". My bad
opengrass 18 hours ago|
submitting attempts — but soon...

not just this issue — but the entire repo.

contributors like @ethanwater, @developerfred, and @Geetk172 — people actively working on bounties — were getting buried.

two identity fields — author and committer — and they can be different people.

metric growth — a substantial part of