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SubjectRe: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes)
On 10/31/2011 03:44 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
>> On 10/31/2011 03:30 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>> But if you do the normal "git pull git://git.kernel.org/name/of/repo"
>>> - which is how things happen as a result of a pull request - you won't
>>> get tags at all - you have to ask for them by name or use "--tags" to
>>> get them all.
>>>
>>
>> Didn't realize that... I guess I'm too used to named remotes.
>>
>> If so, just using a tag should be fine, no?
>
> So nobody is worried about this (quoting from my earlier message)?
>
> On the other hand, the consumers of "Linus kernel" may want to say that
> they trust your tree and your tags because they can verify them with your
> GPG signature, but also they can independently verify the lieutenants'
> trees you pulled from are genuine.
>
> A signed emphemeral tag is usable as means to verify authenticity in a
> hop-by-hop fashion, but that does not leave a permanent trail that can be
> used for auditing.
>

Well, the permanent trail is in the maintainer's tree, but that might
still be suboptimal. The problem with Linus pulling those tags I assume
that it makes the tree too noisy?

-hpa



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