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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
	Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Remote helpers and signed tags
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 14:46:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130407214626.GC19857@elie.Belkin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130407103418.GT2222@serenity.lan>

Hi John,

John Keeping wrote:

> It appears to be impossible to push signed tags using a remote helper
> that supports only fast-export.
[...]
>     fatal: Encountered signed tag 572a535454612a046e7dd7404dcca94d6243c788;
>         use --signed-tag=<mode> to handle it.
>     fatal: Error while running fast-export
>
> which is not particularly helpful for a user who doesn't know how the
> remote helper is implemented

Yeah, this is idiotic.

The remote helper infrastructure is certainly being unhelpful here.  I
wonder if transport-helper should just pass --signed-tag=strip and be
done with it (leaving open the possibility of a capability to switch
to --signed-tag=verbatim when someone wants to teach the testgit
helper to support that).  What do you think?

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-08  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-07 10:34 Remote helpers and signed tags John Keeping
2013-04-07 21:46 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-04-08  0:02   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-04-14 10:57     ` [PATCH 0/3] Handle signed tags with 'export' remote helpers John Keeping
2013-04-14 10:57       ` [PATCH 1/3] fast-export: add --signed-tags=warn-strip mode John Keeping
2013-04-16  4:09         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-04-16  4:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-16  4:50             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-04-16  8:42               ` John Keeping
2013-04-17  4:48                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-17  5:02                   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2013-04-16  5:32             ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-14 10:57       ` [PATCH 2/3] transport-helper: pass --signed-tags=warn-strip to fast-export John Keeping
2013-04-14 10:57       ` [PATCH 3/3] transport-helper: add 'signed-tags' capability John Keeping

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