VS Code Update Added Copilot As Default Co-Author To Git Commits

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By BeauHDMay 5, 2026, 12:00 pm134 pts
Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: On April 15, 2026, a Microsoft employee made a change to Visual Studio Code and pushed it within 8 hours without review, notification, or documentation. The change added "Co-authored-by: Copilot" by default to the end of commit messages in Git when Copilot was used…

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