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Feature request: users name rather than id

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the GitHub Classroom CLI code that names cloned student assignment repositories, then trace how the student identifier is selected. The change is complete when cloned folders use the student's username instead of the user ID and existing behavior remains covered by the relevant tests.

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Description

When cloning student’s assignment repository the naming of the folders is "assignementname-userid".
It would be most useful to have "assignementname-username" since the userid:s can be quite cryptic.
Resulting in 30 folder-repos you wonder whose their are.

Dominant language
Go
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Forks
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