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The commit metadata tag collects WindowsForum.com discussion of how Git and GitHub record and verify commit identity. A recent thread covers GitHub Enterprise's limited public preview of authenticated pusher identity, which stores who actually pushed a commit alongside the traditional author and committer fields, plus rulesets that check whether committer and pusher emails match. The discussion frames this as a fix for Git's long-standing weakness that commit identity is self-reported. For administrators and developers working with GitHub Enterprise, these changes matter for branch protection, audit trails, and supply chain trust in Windows-hosted repositories.
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    GitHub Enterprise Preview Adds Authenticated Pusher Identity and Committer Match Rules

    GitHub has started recording who actually pushed each commit, and it now shows that identity next to the author and committer fields. The feature is in limited public preview. That is a small change on paper, but it fixes a long-standing weakness in Git's trust model. The problem: commit...