From: Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] PSA: Please sign your git commits
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 13:30:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537D0CE1.3000608@monetize.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJC8=OHmmF7fc-fT8fQDWE1uNcCS8-ELEKr0MjQ4CpbPBA@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/21/2014 10:10 AM, Wladimir wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Chris Beams <chris@beams.io> wrote:
>> I'm personally happy to comply with this for any future commits, but wonder
>> if you've considered the arguments against commit signing [1]? Note
>> especially the reference therein to Linus' original negative opinion on
>> signed commits [2].
>
> Yes, I've read it. But would his alternative, signing tags, really
> help us more here?
Honest question: what would signed commits do to help us here anyway?
What's the problem being solved?
Unfortunately git places signatures in the history itself, so it's not
like we could use easily use signatures to indicate acceptance after
code review, like we could if we were using monotone for example. Git
just wasn't designed for a commit-signing workflow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-21 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-21 12:23 [Bitcoin-development] PSA: Please sign your git commits Wladimir
2014-05-21 16:39 ` Chris Beams
2014-05-21 17:10 ` Wladimir
2014-05-21 20:30 ` Mark Friedenbach [this message]
2014-05-21 21:02 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-22 18:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-23 0:25 ` Peter Todd
2014-05-23 7:12 ` Wladimir
2014-05-23 16:38 ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-05-23 16:48 ` Kyle Jerviss
2014-05-23 17:32 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-05-23 10:23 ` Wladimir
2014-06-09 15:34 ` Chris Beams
2014-05-21 20:25 ` David A. Harding
2014-05-22 1:09 ` Chris Beams
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