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Re:Gnome has moved to GitLab by viraptor on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:09PM (#17200303)
That makes sense. You shouldn't normally be allowed to impersonate another username, which is exactly what a full import does.
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Re:Gnome has moved to GitLab by jwilk on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:45PM (#17200588)
Repository owner can edit comments arbitrarily, which already allows for impersonation, although to a lesser extent.

Also, you can impersonate commits freely.

I don't think allowing full import would be a big deal, especially if the UI made it clear that the comments were imported.

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Re:Gnome has moved to GitLab by scrollaway on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:33PM (#17200920)
With full comment edit history that's no longer the case as much, although you can delete the diffs.
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