Re: [PATCH 0/5] Documentation/technical: describe signature formats

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Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> - We don't support verifying push certificates, although they fit in with
>   git verify-tag. Patch has been submitted, and this series documents the
>   result already (git verify-tag --blob).
>
> - We don' support verifying signed merge tags other than by using log/show,
>   which is not quite fit for scripting.

Both true and are good things to tackle, I would think.

It would be ideal if we can unify the latter with verification of
signed commits.

> - We have signature parsing code all over the place, including places that
>   should probably abstract more, such as tag.c and log-tree.c.

Looking forward to see the result of that new abstraction.

> - We may want to give more support for deciding about the trustworthiness
>   of signatures, the same way we export information to receive hooks
>   in the presence of push certificates. (Give information, don't decide.)

Again, true.

Thanks for starting this.

> Michael J Gruber (5):
>   Documentation/technical: describe signature formats
>   Documentation/technical: signed tag format
>   Documentation/technical: signed commit format
>   Documentation/technical: signed merge tag format
>   Documentation/technical: push certificate format
>
>  Documentation/Makefile                       |   1 +
>  Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt | 242 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 243 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/technical/signature-format.txt
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