On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Rhodes, Kate wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > git commit supports --author to overwrite the author information on a > > particular commit; it would be nice if git tag would offer the same. > > What are the implications of this on the GPG signature aspect of git-tag > (desired or otherwise)? > > If you were committing someone else's tag wouldn't you want to sign not only > the commit, but their signature on the commit? > > Ignoring the GPG issue, I'm just not seeing the benefit to having an author > AND a committer on a tag. I mean... it's a *tag*. The only value I see in > having any name associated with a tag is knowing who to point the finger at > when the wrong thing gets tagged. But, I don't see any authorship aspect to > the concept of a tag. To me it's more: "Bob" set it and it points to this. The > end. > > What you're proposing sounds more like: "Bob" said to set it and then "Mary" > did, because Bob said to. And in that case this information can be contained in the tag text body itself. Nicolas - 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
