SOURCE SUMMARY
GitHub now durably records the authenticated user who pushed each commit and surfaces that pusher identity in the UI and API alongside the existing author and committer fields. Commit author…
WHY IT MATTERS
This update matters if it changes a concrete workflow, permission boundary, integration, or user capability. The impact should be judged by what becomes possible in practice rather than by the announcement language alone.
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