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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo•org>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] t/t7510-signed-commit.sh: add signing subkey to Eris Discordia key
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 17:07:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1541347654.22217.4.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181104151013.GH731755@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>

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On Sun, 2018-11-04 at 15:10 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:47:10AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> > diff --git a/t/t7510-signed-commit.sh b/t/t7510-signed-commit.sh
> > index e8377286d..86d3f93fa 100755
> > --- a/t/t7510-signed-commit.sh
> > +++ b/t/t7510-signed-commit.sh
> > @@ -197,9 +197,9 @@ test_expect_success GPG 'show bad signature with custom format' '
> >  test_expect_success GPG 'show untrusted signature with custom format' '
> >  	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
> >  	U
> > -	61092E85B7227189
> > +	65A0EEA02E30CAD7
> >  	Eris Discordia <discord@example•net>
> > -	D4BE22311AD3131E5EDA29A461092E85B7227189
> > +	F8364A59E07FFE9F4D63005A65A0EEA02E30CAD7
> >  	D4BE22311AD3131E5EDA29A461092E85B7227189
> >  	EOF
> >  	git log -1 --format="%G?%n%GK%n%GS%n%GF%n%GP" eighth-signed-alt >actual &&
> > @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ test_expect_success GPG 'show untrusted signature with custom format' '
> >  test_expect_success GPG 'show unknown signature with custom format' '
> >  	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
> >  	E
> > -	61092E85B7227189
> > +	65A0EEA02E30CAD7
> 
> It's my understanding that GnuPG will use the most recent subkey
> suitable for a particular purpose, and I think the test relies on that
> behavior.  However, I'm not sure that's documented.  Do we want to rely
> on that behavior or be more explicit?  (This is a question, not an
> opinion.)

To be honest, I don't recall which suitable subkey is used.  However, it
definitely will prefer a subkey with signing capabilities over
the primary key if one is present, and this is well-known and expected
behavior.

In fact, if you have a key with two signing subkeys A and B and it
considers A better, then even if you explicitly pass keyid of B, it will
use A.  To force another subkey you have to append '!' to keyid.

Therefore, I think this is a behavior we can rely on.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-04 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-04  9:47 [PATCH 1/2] t/t7510-signed-commit.sh: Add %GP to custom format checks Michał Górny
2018-11-04  9:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] t/t7510-signed-commit.sh: add signing subkey to Eris Discordia key Michał Górny
2018-11-04 15:10   ` brian m. carlson
2018-11-04 16:07     ` Michał Górny [this message]
2018-11-05  1:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-05  4:09         ` Michał Górny

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