From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:27:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4EAC538D.10606@garzik.org> References: <20111026202235.GA20928@havoc.gtf.org> <28364.1319915586@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:47869 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751072Ab1J2T1M (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:27:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <28364.1319915586@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML On 10/29/2011 03:13 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:22:35 EDT, Jeff Garzik said: > >> For this reason, I am tempted to modify my new, GPG-signed pull request >> template as follows, for subsequent pull requests: >> >> ------ >> >> pull req description >> >> "Please pull from $branch\n$url $branch" >> >> "Top of tree is $sha1_commit" >> >> ------ >> >> diffstat >> diff > > Note that this can be problematic as well - there's probably a lot of tools out there > that will be less than gracious when presented with a GPG-signed text with non-signed > trailing text. Maybe GPG-sign from "pull request" to "diffstat" and make the diff an > attachment? (That would also allow attaching a gzip'ed diff, which would save vger's > bandwidth :) I'm not sure I buy that. A GPG-signed email, something that's been around for more than decade, transits the system with unsigned email headers. GPG content is commonly delivered buried inside a larger container. Jeff