Unknown account associated with a commit

[akinuri]

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An unknown account is associated with my commits. Why?

No mention of the account in the commit details. The unknown account seems to appear on commits that is co-authored by copilot. Not sure if on all of them.

This commit is the earliest I could find. The problem is across repos and accounts.

https://github.com/akinuri/sahibinden-scraper/commit/f850075bebdaea61f4142dbbd3782c33802123e0.patch

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https://x.com/akinoreh/status/2075512147308671388

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[saintpepsicola]

This is happening because GitHub links commits to user accounts based on the email address in the commit metadata. When you have Co-authored-by: Copilot <copilot@github.com> in your commit, GitHub tries to resolve that email to a GitHub account.

It looks like the email copilot@github.com is somehow being associated with a different user on GitHub's end. This is likely a bug where the copilot email is incorrectly mapped to that account.

To verify: check if copilot@github.com is added to any of your GitHub account emails (Settings > Emails). If not, this is a platform-level issue that needs GitHub Support to fix.

For now, you can work around it by: 1) Not using Co-authored-by: Copilot in your commits, or 2) Contacting GitHub Support to report the incorrect email-to-account mapping

[akinuri]

The first time I saw it, got kind of concerned of a breach or something, but seeing there's nothing wrong with the commit made me suspicious that it might be a platform issue. The weird thing is (in our team) I'm the only one that is affected.

It seems to be fixed now.

[samus-aran]

Hey everyone!

Thanks for raising this to our attention. We can confirm that we have removed the copilot@github.com affiliation with said user. We appreciate everyone that commented on this discussion.