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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Allow "-u" flag to tag signing
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:15:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43455BBC.6020908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510060952410.31407@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The current "git tag -s" thing always uses the tagger name as the signing 
> user key, which is very irritating, since my key is under my email 
> address, but the tagger key obviously contains the actual machine name 
> too.
> 
> Now, I could just use "GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" and force it to be my real 
> email, but I actually think that it's nice to see which machine I use for 
> my work. 
> 
> So rather than force my tagger ID to have to match the gpg key name, just 
> support the "-u" flag to "git tag" instead. It implicitly enables signing, 
> since it doesn't make any sense without it. Thus:
> 
> 	git tag -u <gpg-key-name> <tag-name> [<tagged-object>]
> 
> will use the named gpg key for signing.

This is important for another reason as well: a lot of people have 
multiple keys.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-06 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-06 16:58 Allow "-u" flag to tag signing Linus Torvalds
2005-10-06 17:15 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-06 20:17   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-06 23:32 ` Chris Wright

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