Remove AI contributor from repository contributors list

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Hello GitHub Support,

I need help removing an AI contributor named "Claude" from my repository's
contributors list at:
https://github.com/Imadeveloperrr/shopingmall

This AI contributor appears in the contributors section but should not be listed
as it's not a human contributor. I have already added .gitattributes settings
to prevent future AI contributions from being tracked.

Could you please remove "Claude" from the contributors list for this repository?

Repository: https://github.com/Imadeveloperrr/shopingmall
Issue: Unwanted AI contributor in contributors list

Thank you for your assistance.

[queenofcorgis]

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[aortez]

I "fixed" this problem by creating another copy of my repo, then doing a rename dance to rename and archive the original tainted one.

I saw that @claude was being counted from GitHub-managed hidden PR refs (refs/pull/*/head) containing "Co-Authored-By: Claude" ..., I couldn't figure out how to change the hidden refs. So made a copy and pushed the clean main history into it.

Shame on you @claude (and Anthropic). I use lots of LLM tools and only @claude tries to spam my commit messages with ads.

[coolaj86]

I'm all for disclosing what's been authored with Ai, but yeah, Anthropic overdid it taking advantage of the contributor side panel with the blatant logo promotion as advertisement. Can't blame homie for trying though.

Anyway, here's what I've done to remove the offending commits using rebase:

0. Pull so that the current history is up-to-date

   git pull

1. Rebase the branch that has the commits with an over estimate of how many commits were done by Claude

   git rebase -i main~50

2. Rename pick to e (or edit) for each in the list committed by the Claude bot
3. Amend each commit, removing the "Co-Authored-By:" line

   git commit --amend '-S' && git rebase --continue

4. Overwrite the history.

   git push --force

   Note: anyone who has the bad commits will have to do git pull --rebase or git pull --force to correct their local repo.
5. You can go to the committer history and see that Claude has not commits, for example:
   https://github.com/therootcompany/golib/commits/dev/?author=claude

I'm hoping that this will update the repo the next time the cache updates*. Otherwise I'll have to consider the rename dance.

To prevent the same problem in the future, as per https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#attribution-settings:

~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "attribution": {
    "commit": "",
    "pr": ""
  }
}

P.S. This is ironic being here talking about ads in repos because I'm the reason for GitHub's ad policy for repos - back around 2015 or so while automating placing an ad for my own company in all my cloned repos I accidentally got some forked repos in the mix which inadvertently added ads to some PRs. I was temporarily banned, but since I hadn't actually violated any terms they reinstated my account and quickly changed to the terms of service and ad policy. Seems like it needs an update for the Ai world.

[Mnikley]

I see you still have claude as a contributor, even though you cleared your commit history .. wondering how long this cache update takes

[10xDeVv]

It's been more than 24 hours since I've been waiting for this cache update

[aortez]

FWIW, as I explained above, I had to do the rename dance. I did the process you described as my first attempt and then waited quite some time (weeks at least), but the repo still showed claude as a contributor. I was disappointed to lose my PR history when I moved to the new repo.