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Name branches after the account, and labels after the display

474a812d199a109ba894124cd6f26be12c73285d · Keenan Nemetz · 15d ago · parent ade6107e

Name branches after the account, and labels after the display

A contributor's folder was `refs/heads/contrib/<account-id>/`, which told a
reader nothing without decoding a ULID. It is now the account name,

    refs/heads/contrib/<name>/<branch>

and the name is therefore fixed at creation: renaming an account would strand
every ref under its old folder, so `vole admin user rename` is gone and the
users row itself — kept after retirement — is what stops a name being reissued.

What people see is now a separate, mutable display name, validated by the same
rules wherever it is set (CLI, remote admin, registration, `/account`) and shown
on pages, approvals, listings and refusals. Nothing is authorized by it and
nothing on disk is keyed by it: metadata authors stay account names because the
push boundary resolves them for ownership, and approvals stay account ids.

`user_names`, `Snapshot.Reserved` and `Account.Former` are dropped: with a fixed
name there are no former names to remember, and the UNIQUE column already does
the reserving. Opening an older roster adds the `display` column and drops the
alias table in place; contributor refs written under the old id namespace are
left where they are, readable, and landable by a maintainer.

client/git.go +3−1

@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ func DefaultAuthor(gitDir string) string {
	112	112	return SanitizeAuthor(os.Getenv("USER"))
	113	113	}
	114	114
	115		// SanitizeAuthor turns a display name into the shape of a Vole account name.
		115	// SanitizeAuthor turns a person's name from git config into the shape of a Vole
		116	// account name. A Vole display name is a separate, freer label and is never a
		117	// fallback identity.
	116	118	func SanitizeAuthor(s string) string {
	117	119	s = strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(s))
	118	120	var b strings.Builder