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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Documentation/technical: describe signature formats
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:38:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqeg7v1zt2.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1466148698.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net> (Michael J. Gruber's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:46:07 +0200")

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net> writes:

> - We don't support verifying push certificates, although they fit in with
>   git verify-tag. Patch has been submitted, and this series documents the
>   result already (git verify-tag --blob).
>
> - We don' support verifying signed merge tags other than by using log/show,
>   which is not quite fit for scripting.

Both true and are good things to tackle, I would think.

It would be ideal if we can unify the latter with verification of
signed commits.

> - We have signature parsing code all over the place, including places that
>   should probably abstract more, such as tag.c and log-tree.c.

Looking forward to see the result of that new abstraction.

> - We may want to give more support for deciding about the trustworthiness
>   of signatures, the same way we export information to receive hooks
>   in the presence of push certificates. (Give information, don't decide.)

Again, true.

Thanks for starting this.

> Michael J Gruber (5):
>   Documentation/technical: describe signature formats
>   Documentation/technical: signed tag format
>   Documentation/technical: signed commit format
>   Documentation/technical: signed merge tag format
>   Documentation/technical: push certificate format
>
>  Documentation/Makefile                       |   1 +
>  Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt | 242 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 243 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-17 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-17  7:46 [PATCH 0/5] Documentation/technical: describe signature formats Michael J Gruber
2016-06-17  7:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] " Michael J Gruber
2016-06-17  7:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] Documentation/technical: signed tag format Michael J Gruber
2016-06-17  7:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] Documentation/technical: signed commit format Michael J Gruber
2016-06-17  7:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] Documentation/technical: signed merge tag format Michael J Gruber
2016-06-17  7:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] Documentation/technical: push certificate format Michael J Gruber
2016-06-17  8:54   ` [PATCHv2] " Michael J Gruber
2016-06-17 19:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-17 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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