On 10/31/2011 03:49 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 03:44:25PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> So nobody is worried about this (quoting from my earlier message)? >> >> On the other hand, the consumers of "Linus kernel" may want to say that >> they trust your tree and your tags because they can verify them with your >> GPG signature, but also they can independently verify the lieutenants' >> trees you pulled from are genuine. >> >> A signed emphemeral tag is usable as means to verify authenticity in a >> hop-by-hop fashion, but that does not leave a permanent trail that can be >> used for auditing. > > Oh, there are definitely people who worry about this. They tend to be > security poeple, though, so the goal is how do we leave the permanent > trail in a way that doesn't generate too much noise or otherwise makes > life difficult for developers who don't care. > Could we introduce a tag namespace that doesn't show up in gitweb by default, and perhaps doesn't resolve in abbreviated form? This is basically what Linus suggested, as far as I understand: something like refs/pulls/hpa/tip-123-456 which is otherwise a normal tag object? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
