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How to disable Git Co-Author Attribution in Claude Code

by Ashik Nesin Ashik Nesin

By default, if you commit code using Claude Code, then it adds co-authored-by Claude in those commits.

If you prefer not to have those in attributions, you can just disable it using settings.json

In MacOS/Linux, you can find it at ~/.claude/settings.json

There, set includeCoAuthoredBy to false like this

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That’s pretty much it.

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