canonicalActor (issueops/identity.go)

Normalizes identity strings to a canonical form for consistent comparison.

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package issueops

import "strings"

// canonicalActor normalizes an identity string so two spellings of the same
// Gas Town identity compare equal. The same identity arrives at bd in more
// than one spelling depending on which layer produced the string it was
// handed: a dotted alias like "gastown.mayor" gets its dot replaced wherever
// a dot is unsafe for that context — "__" in a session name, "_" in a Dolt
// table/database name, "-" elsewhere — and bd only ever sees the resulting
// string, never the substitution itself (ga-wzl83). None of ".", "_", "-"
// carries meaning in an identity string: each is always a positional

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