Iustin Pop writes ("Re: Include git commit id and git tree id in *.changes
files when uploading? [and 1 more messages]"):
> If I would do a manual upload, and add these two fields correctly, that
> is, Git-Tag-Tagger: my name/email and Git-Tag-Info: pointing to a
> signed (by me) tag, I don't see how this wuold conflict with with the
> meaning of the fields when filled by tag2upload. The signature on the
> changes file would be mine, but that would be the only difference.
If the archive accepted such an upload from you, you would be able to
produce confusing information about who did the upload.
> I.e., adding these fields for manual uploads (correctly), wouldn't break
> the tag2upload protocol - it would cause a 2-step lookup of the signer,
> but would point to the same signer.
>
> What am I missing?
Tooling that isn't a service like tag2upload ought not to add these
fields becase of the possibility that they would be wrong.
These fields don't add anything useful.
Ian.
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