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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
	Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@lukeshu.com>,
	Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
	"brian m . carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
	Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: [PATCH v6 4/6] git-fast-export.adoc: clarify why 'verbatim' may not be a good idea
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:57:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250310155746.879481-5-christian.couder@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250310155746.879481-1-christian.couder@gmail.com>

From: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>

Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc b/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc
index ab9a315fa9..2bb52261a0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc
@@ -29,15 +29,20 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --signed-tags=(verbatim|warn-verbatim|warn-strip|strip|abort)::
 	Specify how to handle signed tags.  Since any transformation
-	after the export can change the tag names (which can also happen
-	when excluding revisions) the signatures will not match.
+	after the export (or during the export, such as excluding
+	revisions) can change the hashes being signed, the signatures
+	may become invalid.
 +
 When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die
 when encountering a signed tag.  With 'strip', the tags will silently
 be made unsigned, with 'warn-strip' they will be made unsigned but a
 warning will be displayed, with 'verbatim', they will be silently
 exported and with 'warn-verbatim' (or 'warn', a deprecated synonym),
-they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
+they will be exported, but you will see a warning.  'verbatim' and
+'warn-verbatim' should only be used if you know that no transformation
+affecting tags or any commit in their history will be performed by you
+or by fast-export or fast-import, or if you do not care that the
+resulting tag will have an invalid signature.
 
 --tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite)::
 	Specify how to handle tags whose tagged object is filtered out.
-- 
2.49.0.rc1.89.g148d1db992


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-03-10 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-22  0:27 [PATCH v2 0/3] fast-export, fast-import: implement signed-commits Luke Shumaker
2021-04-22  0:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] git-fast-import.txt: add missing LF in the BNF Luke Shumaker
2021-04-22  0:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim' Luke Shumaker
2021-04-22  3:59   ` Eric Sunshine
2021-04-22  4:43     ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-22  4:50       ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-22  0:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] fast-export, fast-import: implement signed-commits Luke Shumaker
2021-04-23 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] " Luke Shumaker
2021-04-23 16:41   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] git-fast-import.txt: add missing LF in the BNF Luke Shumaker
2021-04-23 16:41   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim' Luke Shumaker
2021-04-28  3:29     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-29 19:02       ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-30  0:03         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-23 16:41   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] fast-export, fast-import: implement signed-commits Luke Shumaker
2021-04-28  4:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-29 20:06       ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-29 22:38         ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-29 23:42           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-30  2:23             ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-30  3:20               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-30 17:07             ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-30 19:34       ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-30 19:59         ` Elijah Newren
2021-04-30 22:21           ` Luke Shumaker
2021-04-30 23:25   ` [PATCH v4 0/5] fast-export, fast-import: add support for signed-commits Luke Shumaker
2021-04-30 23:25     ` [PATCH v4 1/5] git-fast-import.txt: add missing LF in the BNF Luke Shumaker
2021-04-30 23:25     ` [PATCH v4 2/5] fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim' Luke Shumaker
2021-04-30 23:25     ` [PATCH v4 3/5] git-fast-export.txt: clarify why 'verbatim' may not be a good idea Luke Shumaker
2021-04-30 23:25     ` [PATCH v4 4/5] fast-export: do not modify memory from get_commit_buffer Luke Shumaker
2021-05-03  4:41       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-30 23:25     ` [PATCH v4 5/5] fast-export, fast-import: add support for signed-commits Luke Shumaker
2021-05-03  5:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-02-24 14:27     ` [PATCH v5 0/6] " Christian Couder
2025-02-24 14:27       ` [PATCH v5 1/6] git-fast-import.adoc: add missing LF in the BNF Christian Couder
2025-02-24 14:27       ` [PATCH v5 2/6] fast-export: fix missing whitespace after switch Christian Couder
2025-02-24 14:27       ` [PATCH v5 3/6] fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim' Christian Couder
2025-02-24 14:27       ` [PATCH v5 4/6] git-fast-export.txt: clarify why 'verbatim' may not be a good idea Christian Couder
2025-02-24 19:26         ` Elijah Newren
2025-03-10 15:58           ` Christian Couder
2025-02-24 14:27       ` [PATCH v5 5/6] fast-export: do not modify memory from get_commit_buffer Christian Couder
2025-02-24 14:27       ` [PATCH v5 6/6] fast-export, fast-import: add support for signed-commits Christian Couder
2025-02-25  7:35         ` Elijah Newren
2025-02-25 16:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-10 15:58           ` Christian Couder
2025-02-24 17:01       ` [PATCH v5 0/6] " Junio C Hamano
2025-02-25  7:35         ` Elijah Newren
2025-02-25  7:51           ` Patrick Steinhardt
2025-02-25 16:48             ` Elijah Newren
2025-02-25 16:56               ` Junio C Hamano
2025-03-10 15:59                 ` Christian Couder
2025-02-25 14:53       ` Phillip Wood
2025-03-10 15:59         ` Christian Couder
2025-03-10 15:57       ` [PATCH v6 " Christian Couder
2025-03-10 15:57         ` [PATCH v6 1/6] git-fast-import.adoc: add missing LF in the BNF Christian Couder
2025-03-10 15:57         ` [PATCH v6 2/6] fast-export: fix missing whitespace after switch Christian Couder
2025-03-10 15:57         ` [PATCH v6 3/6] fast-export: rename --signed-tags='warn' to 'warn-verbatim' Christian Couder
2025-03-10 15:57         ` Christian Couder [this message]
2025-03-10 15:57         ` [PATCH v6 5/6] fast-export: do not modify memory from get_commit_buffer Christian Couder
2025-03-10 15:57         ` [PATCH v6 6/6] fast-export, fast-import: add support for signed-commits Christian Couder
2025-03-10 22:36         ` [PATCH v6 0/6] " Elijah Newren

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