Support for Co-Authored-By in Commit Body to Display Co-Committers
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Proposal
While GitLab currently recognizes co-authors in the commit body and displays the avatar and a link to the profile, it does not display co-authors on the commit interface. That means that users have to expand the commit body to be aware that an co-author was involved. This feature is supported on GitHub, where contributors listed in the Co-Authored-By section are shown as co-authors of the commit. Implementing this functionality in GitLab would enhance collaboration transparency and give proper credit to all contributors.
The requested feature would:
- Parse the
Co-Authored-Bytrailer in commit messages. - Display co-authors in the commit details view.
- display name
- display combination of both user icons
- Enhance the user interface for better collaboration recognition.
Example from Github
Possible visual representation for Gitlab
In this example only the user names are combined but not the icons (s. Github Example)