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Push attribution for commits in limited public preview
Publisher description: 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.
github | Oct 12, 2026 | Allison
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This release adds durable, per-commit pusher attribution alongside the author and committer metadata. Every commit pushed to a repository now has a durable, authenticated pusher identity attached to it, independent of whatever the author and committer metadata claims. A new repository rule condition, Committer must match pusher, blocks pushes where the committer metadata doesn’t match any verified email address of the authenticated pusher.
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