GitHub: Commit together with co-authors (opens in new tab)

There is already a convention for signed-off by. I don’t understand either why GitHub is pushing for this, though I have seen this feature before on some repositories before the post.

Edit: Now that I think about it, can see why. I have seen merges where is was good enough to merge, but needed som slight adjustments. Rebase/merge with minor changes would be a good use for this, and would allow for better crediting of both authors.

We use "Name & Name <team@company.com>" during pairs/mobs so we don't worry about who gets the credit and waste time rotating authors. It doesn't look great on GitHub but we usually use an IDE to go through commit history anyway.

It doesn't work great for our open source projects though where visibility on GitHub tends to be more important.

> “keep their streak up”

I think that `how much code has been changed by developer` is not a good metric for performance. There might be weeks when I'm barely writing any code and getting the most work done.

Issue trackers on the other hand can be good to track performance.