On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 16:45, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The world is not so blank-and-white. Trust is ultimately among humans. If > this message is not from the real Junio, don't you think you will hear > something like "No, that c6ba05... is forgery, please don't use it!" from > him, when he finds this message on the Git mailing list? If he does not > exercise diligence to even do that much, does he deserve your trust in the > first place? You are parroting Linus's drivel. If we get to the point where we need the real Junio yelling: DO NOT USE IT! then things went too far long before. In that case, my trust in you as the maintainer would also take a hit; I expect you to use the available technology to avoid such a situation. Not everybody manages to read every [real] message of yours, so we need to provide people with ways to check for themselves that the sources that they have *locally* already are sound. -- 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