Re: [gentoo-dev] signatures in git work flow

2015-07-08 Thread W. Trevor King
On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 09:05:12PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > All the gpg stuff really exposes the weakness of git being based on > sha1 though. I wouldn't think that it would be that hard to change > git's hash function, with the caveat that the resulting repositories > might not be backwards-c

Re: [gentoo-dev] signatures in git work flow

2015-07-05 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6 July 2015 at 08:01, William Hubbs wrote: > Once we have a version of git stable that allows this, can someone fill > me in on why we would need to sign commits if we sign pushes? If we have > a signature on the push, we know where that came from, so it seems to be > overkill to sign the commi

Re: [gentoo-dev] signatures in git work flow

2015-07-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 4:01 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > I've been hearing lately that the newest versions of git allow you to > sign pushes. > > Once we have a version of git stable that allows this, can someone fill > me in on why we would need to sign commits if we sign pushes? If we have > a s

Re: [gentoo-dev] signatures in git work flow

2015-07-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/05/2015 04:01 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I've been hearing lately that the newest versions of git allow you to > sign pushes. > > Once we have a version of git stable that allows this, can someone fill > me in on why we would need to sign commits if we sign pushes? If we have > a s