On 09.01.2014 04:10, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > It's possible, in principle, to shove enough metadata into the output > of 'git archive' to allow anyone to verify (without cloning the repo) > to verify that the archive is a correct copy of a given commit. Would > this be considered a useful feature? > Do you know git bundles? > Presumably there would be a 'git untar' command that would report > failure if it fails to verify the archive contents. > > This could be as simple as including copies of the commit object and > all relevant tree objects and checking all of the hashes when > untarring. > I thought the git archive rather had the purpose of creating plain archives not polluted with any gitish stuff. > (Even better: allow subsets of the repository to be archived and > verified as well.) Stefan -- 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