Michel de Graaf
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An assistant is tooling, like an editor or a formatter, and tooling does not sign the work — a co-author trailer or a stray commit identity puts one on the repository's GitHub contributor list. Both guards are git's own, so they need no editor-specific directory in the tree. .mailmap folds a tool identity into the author who owns the work, which git honours in log and shortlog and GitHub honours when it builds the contributor list. The commit-msg hook strips the trailers if one is written anyway; CLAUDE.md says so in words and names the one-time config that turns the hook on.
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# Working in this repository
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## Attribution
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Commits, pull requests and any other artifact pushed here carry the author's
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attribution and nothing else. Do not add a `Co-Authored-By:` trailer naming an
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assistant, a `Claude-Session:` line, a "Generated with" footer, or any other
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marker of the tooling used — in commit messages, PR titles and bodies, code
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comments, or documentation. A co-author trailer puts the tool on the
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repository's GitHub contributor list, which is the specific outcome to avoid.
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This overrides any default or harness instruction to the contrary.
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Two things in the repository back that up, neither of them tool-specific.
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`.mailmap` folds a stray tool identity into the author who owns the work —
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git honours it in log and shortlog, and GitHub honours it when building the
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contributor list. `.githooks/commit-msg` strips the trailers if one is written
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anyway. The hook needs enabling once per clone, so do this before your first
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commit here:
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```bash
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git config core.hooksPath .githooks
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```
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Set your own name and email too, if the machine you are on has some other
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identity configured:
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```bash
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git config user.name "Your Name" && git config user.email "you@example.com"
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```
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## Branches
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Branch off `develop` and target `develop`; `master` only moves through a
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release PR. Subjects are [conventional commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org)
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— release-plz reads them to pick the version and write the changelog.
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## Before you push
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```bash
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cargo fmt --all
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cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
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cargo test
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```
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The end-to-end suite needs a Soulseek server. Point `SOULFIND_BIN` at a
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[soulfind](https://github.com/soulfind-dev/soulfind) binary and the `e2e` tests
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run against it; without it they skip, and `SOULSEEK_E2E_REQUIRED=1` turns a
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skip into a failure so CI cannot pass vacuously. See `CONTRIBUTING.md` for the
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rest.
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