Not sure how gitlab handles the avatar, but in practice this doesn't matter internally in a FLOSS project: "The commit that broke something is attributed to So

Not sure how gitlab handles the avatar, but in practice this doesn't matter internally in a FLOSS project: "The commit that broke something is attributed to Sojourner Truth. That's you, right?" "Yes, that's me." However, a centralized identity in a global namespace that merely wraps around arbitrary state entered into a local instance of git instance is not gonna go good.