Aside from handling of SIGPIPE, there was no reason for verify-tag to run in a separate process. Not much advantage to this I can see. It just simplifies things a little. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Rebased to remove the churn from patch 1, as suggested by Johannes. Thanks. The new series has only 4 patches: [PATCH 2/5] verify-tag: use sigchain library to block SIGPIPE [PATCH 3/5] Expose verify_tag() [PATCH 4/5 v2] tag -v: Do not spawn a separate process for verify-tag [PATCH 5/5] verify_tag_signature(): let caller look up tag object sha1 builtin/tag.c | 6 +----- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/tag.c b/builtin/tag.c index 4ef1c4f..d138e0c 100644 --- a/builtin/tag.c +++ b/builtin/tag.c @@ -147,11 +147,7 @@ static int delete_tag(const char *name, const char *ref, static int verify_tag(const char *name, const char *ref, const unsigned char *sha1) { - const char *argv_verify_tag[] = {"git-verify-tag", - "-v", "SHA1_HEX", NULL}; - argv_verify_tag[2] = sha1_to_hex(sha1); - - if (run_command_v_opt(argv_verify_tag, 0)) + if (verify_tag_signature(sha1_to_hex(sha1), 1)) return error("could not verify the tag '%s'", name); return 0; } -- 1.7.0.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html