Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 29/11/2022 17:33, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > One of reasons being that it's (at least slightly) easier to > > notice a change to the public key / keyring when it's in > > dist-git versus the lookaside cache > > It depends on public key format. Armored (ASCII format) vs. binary keys. > > Storing binaries in Git is a bad idea. Why is that? Does 8-bit data break Git somehow? A key is a small file. It doesn't bloat the repository like a tarball would. When a key needs replacing, the new key is entirely different whether it's ASCII-armored or not, so there's nothing to gain by storing a diff instead of the whole file. ASCII-armor is for sending messages over old 7-bit protocols, just like Base64 and UUencoding. In 8-bit-clean channels ASCII-armor doesn't accomplish anything other than making the message slightly larger. I can't believe that Git wouldn't be 8-bit-clean. Björn Persson
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