From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Allow "-u" flag to tag signing Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:15:40 -0700 Message-ID: <43455BBC.6020908@zytor.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 06 19:18:57 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENZLj-0001FI-EP for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:16:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751156AbVJFRQE (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:16:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751161AbVJFRQE (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:16:04 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:44250 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751156AbVJFRQC (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 13:16:02 -0400 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j96HFeIn004900 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:15:42 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 [] > > will use the named gpg key for signing. This is important for another reason as well: a lot of people have multiple keys. -hpa