I remember this earlier subthread where someone was criticizing GitHub for allowing this (even using Torvald as someone to impersonate!), and others offered some defenses (which were IMHO dubious):
Finally, I thought this phrasing was funny, like commits have a non-substantively transferable ownership, like an NFT (though FYI it's quoting an older discussion of the same problem):
>Someone wrote about the whole situation on Medium in November 2021: "The 1st commit of git/git no longer belongs to Linus Torvalds".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21025378
Also, semi-related, obligatory mention of my joke utility for stealing credit for someone else's work:
https://github.com/silasx/git-upstage
Finally, I thought this phrasing was funny, like commits have a non-substantively transferable ownership, like an NFT (though FYI it's quoting an older discussion of the same problem):
>Someone wrote about the whole situation on Medium in November 2021: "The 1st commit of git/git no longer belongs to Linus Torvalds".