From https://github.com/portkey-cloud/cfn-yaml/issues/1 How I supposed to import a project withtout a clear ArtifactID? Consider: I publish my/lib {:rev :v1} that requires cfn-yaml {:git/url "" :sha v1} Someone else import my/lib {:rev :v1} portkey-cloud/cfn-yaml {:git/url "" :sha v2} It will result in 2 times in classpath.

To get comparisons, you need to use consistent ids

This is admittedly challenging with git deps, and they work best with things like tools that are edges of a dependency graph

I generally strongly recommend a id in the readme

Seems like a good practice

If repos were the canonical source of what id they represented, that would solve this. It would also make the deps.edn format very different.

it would also break forking use cases etc

it was long considered