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hi there my name's jookia and i spent too much time trying to explain that this is possible, so here it is:
UUIDs AS GIT NAMES! MODIFIABLE AUTHOR NAMES! IMMUTABLE COMMITS! MAGIC!

ok show me thegoods
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ok clone this repo and check the log, like this:

```
git clone https://github.com/Jookia/gituuidnames
cd gituuidnames
git log
./setup.sh
git log
```

the first log will show ugly UUIDs, the second will show beautiful names
all with the same commit hashes

so try adding a file and committing it, then cloning again:

```
echo "TEST" > file
git add file
git commit -m "what"
cd ..
git clone gituuidnames gituuidnames2
cd gituuidnames2
./setup.sh
git log
```

wow, it all works! you've committed as usual

but you've decided your name or whatever needs changing, so now you do this:

```
cd ../gituuidnames
./update-uuid.sh $(git config user.name) "My New Name" "[email protected]"
git log
```

next time someone fetches from your repo and syncs it will update the names:

```
cd ../gituuidnames2
git fetch
./sync-uuid.sh
git log
```

what's the point
================

the only point here is to show is that abstracting author info to use UUIDs in
git is fairly easy with scripts. this example is the most limited thing in the world
and i made it in a few hours but i'm sure if we took our best minds we could probably
nail out a solution that would auto-detect and auto-sync uuids