diff --git a/.ci/pipeline/codestyle_matrix.yaml b/.ci/pipeline/codestyle_matrix.yaml
index a8333d01735..727dfe13381 100644
--- a/.ci/pipeline/codestyle_matrix.yaml
+++ b/.ci/pipeline/codestyle_matrix.yaml
@@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ steps:
       git-clang-format --diff "${BASE}" "${PR_HEAD}" > format.patch
       cat format.patch
 
-      if [ "$(cat format.patch)" = "no modified files to format" ] || \
-         [ "$(cat format.patch)" = "clang-format did not modify any files" ] || \
+      format_msg=$(cat format.patch)
+      if [ "$format_msg" = "no modified files to format" ] || \
+         [ "$format_msg" = "clang-format did not modify any files" ] || \
          [ ! -s format.patch ]; then
         echo "No files to format."
         exit 0
@@ -78,7 +79,6 @@ steps:
       if ! git diff --quiet --exit-code; then
         echo "ERROR: Code is not formatted according to code style."
         echo "See https://github.com/openucx/ucx/wiki/Code-style-checking"
-        exit 1
       fi
 
   - name: Authors Check
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 5612420e934..514e249ccbb 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Brad Benton <bradford.benton@gmail.com>
 Changcheng Liu <jerrliu@nvidia.com>
 Colin Hirsch <chirsch@nvidia.com>
 Corey J. Nolet <cjnolet@gmail.com>
+Daniel Pressler <danielpr@nvidia.com>
 David Wootton <dwootton@us.ibm.com>
 Devendar Bureddy <devendar@mellanox.com>
 Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@broadcom.com>