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I acknowledged that. It's one of those features that isn't perfect when implemented.

There should be a way to stop these commits from happening under my name without going to the computer physically or rewriting history every time it happens. And that only works if you have access to the repository.

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I think it would be reasonable to allow a GitHub user to control whether their account is linked to commits (say, to require the commit be signed).

On the other hand, allowing a user to completely restrict the ability to make commits identifying them as the author would mean that J. Q. Hacker could retroactively interfere with any project they had previously committed to simply by enabling that setting.

That would break the distributed nature of Git: if you'd committed to code locally, and I pulled from you, I'd then not be able to push any changes I made up to GitHub, because the change set included commits from you.

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