git uuids
ugh the more i think about it the more the git uuids issue becomes solvable:
- add an optional header in git commits, Author-UUID and Comitter-UUID
- keep internal mapping of author names in git commits to UUUIDs based on last seen commit author
this would automatically solve the issue of interfacing with non-UUID aware gits as the author would still be there if the user's ok with that, and UUID-aware gits would automatically retroactively see old commits with new names
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so theoretically you could get auto-updating names in git easily with a way to change name source if needed but at the expense of breaking compatibiltiy
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all this could be done with some git configs/git hooks magicery as a prototype so maybe i should legit try that
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apparently git includes global hooks? maybe i could just maek this a hook thing?
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oh it looks like i'd have to modify git's code. makes sense in a way
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but maybe trailers would work instead
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so i guess the solution im proposing here is this:
- have a global mailmap
- manage it according to a Author-UUID and Committer-UUID field present on commits
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now if someone doesn't want their name to be in git history AT ALL, you'd have an out of band method of grabbing a mapping, such as a mutable ref from the origin like i did or a name lookup service