From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Tags Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:58:05 -0700 Message-ID: <42C6D5AD.9070304@zytor.com> References: <42C454B2.6090307@zytor.com> <42C462CD.9010909@zytor.com> <42C46B86.8070006@zytor.com> <42C5714A.1020203@zytor.com> <42C5C75F.4040100@zytor.com> <42C5DA77.4030107@zytor.com> <42C6D318.8050108@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Daniel Barkalow , Git Mailing List , Junio C Hamano , ftpadmin@kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 02 19:59:35 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DomGp-0003sz-UX for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:59:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261248AbVGBR6z (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jul 2005 13:58:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261250AbVGBR6z (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jul 2005 13:58:55 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:35793 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261248AbVGBR6k (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jul 2005 13:58:40 -0400 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-239-42.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.239.42]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j62Hw6F3019150 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 2 Jul 2005 10:58:07 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.3 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: "Eric W. Biederman" In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > ?? Isn't that what ssh is? > > To some extent a lot depends on how active you expect people to > try and forge things. If there is an expectation of honesty > you are fine. > I can't afford to have that. > If you want to build one mondo repository with thousands of developers > having write access you need to be more careful. But as far as I know > none of that is specific to tags. Well, you're wrong. Tags is the only part of git which cannot be protected by git's own self-validation system. -hpa