How to hide automated commits made by a tool?

[haozhun]

My workflow involves running a tool provided by my employer. The tool monitors file system change. When it sees a change, it makes a local commit, push the commit to a remote git server, and make a remote dev box check out the commit. For people that don't use git-branchless, there will be a bunch of garbage in their git reflog. People generally don't care. For me, this generates a bunch of garbage in git sl because I use git-branchless. Right now, I run git hide "draft() & message('substr:-dirty-')" to hide those whenever I want to run git sl.

I'd like to make those commit not show up in git branchless in the first place. Within reason, I can make code changes to the tool. Preferably, that doesn't involve making the tool be aware of git-branchless.

Reading https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/wiki/Command:-git-smartlog#which-commits-are-visible, I was hopeful that making the committer someone other than me could help. So I started the tool with dummy values in GIT_COMMITTER_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL env vars. That changed the committer name/email of the commits, but they still show up in git sl.

Any recommendations?