Discussion on question by SomeUser: Coworker stole code entirely and claims he wrote it all

@bharal it matters because he has been a very poor coworker. He has been stuck on a bug for over a month. We missed this projects deadline and had to extend. It matters because I have been passively trying to show how little he does and then he straight outright steals my code.

If you knew he was stuck on a bug for a month, why didn't you offer to help? Writing your own solution to the bug you knew he was working on and then "hiding" it away in your dev branch is not good. Was it right for him to take it and push it before it's ready? Maybe not, but it sounds like neither of you is working cooperatively here.

Please clarify: Does the code your coworker committed contain the bugfix he was supposed to do? Or something that was clearly assigned to you?

There isn't really an issue with him using your code in my opinion, one of the main principles of good development is re-usability, so if a solution to the problem already exists why wouldn't he use it? It sounds like the issue is his general work ethic/productivity, which you need to raise with your manager.

How did you manage to have so much uncommitted code? Never have more than a days uncommitted code (it can be in a feature branch)