ah god fuck of course GitHub Gists don’t have their attribution updated if you change names or usernames because they’re fucking git repos underneath
we will never fix this aspect of git and it sucks because it’s “good enough” for enough people that we’ll probably take a good while to replace it and the tool that does replace it will probably make similar mistakes but be better in some other academic way
@katelyn look I kind of just want authorship to be a GPG style key ID and then you look it up in a database the repo has which is mutable separately
git is a nightmarish blob of identity tightly coupled to activity and I really wish it weren’t irreversibly stuck this way