Stop advertising in your commits
The article criticizes the inclusion of advertisements in commit messages for open-source projects. The author argues that such ads are unnecessary and detract from the technical purpose of commits. They suggest that any AI tools used should be disclosed separately rather than being included as advertisements.
- ▪The author expresses frustration over ads being added to commit messages in open-source projects.
- ▪They argue that these ads do not provide any value and are akin to unwanted advertising.
- ▪The article emphasizes that commit messages should focus on technical information, not advertisements.
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Stop advertising in your commits! Posted on 2026-05-26 by Akseli Lahtinen Co-authored-by: ur mom Co-authored-by: ur mom I don't get why people just gleefully add these ads for companies to their open-source projects that do not pay them a penny (but actively take money from them in subscription fees). "Assisted by blabot", "co-authored-by: slopgpt", "sent from my fartphone" Why? It's a fucking ad. I bet you use ad blockers, yet you add ads to your commits. Stop that. Disclose your "AI" tools in a merge request if needed but leave them out of the damn commits, those are for technical information and not for advertising. Any tool that adds advertising to my commits or emails or whatever messages is a really bad one. Fuck ads.
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