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Authorship of merge commits made by Github Apps changed? #22658

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Hi friends, I’m the GitHub PM responsible for this change.

First of all, apologies for all the trouble this has caused. We’re going to revert the change, and GitHub’s squash-and-merge behaviour will be back to normal in the next 24 hours.

Our original intention with the change was to fix a couple of minor issues with the previous GitHub behaviour by bringing GitHub’s implementation of squash-and-merge in line with the behaviour of git merge --squash, which uses the merger as the author of the squashed commit. With hindsight this was a mistake - I had not realised how much this would affect existing workflows, and in particular how it would affect the use of git blame. In addition, the cha…

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