From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Cc: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-tag bug? confusing git fast-export with double tag objects
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:40:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3ab6uuw4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0D9696.1040805@op5.se> (Andreas Ericsson's message of "Fri\, 15 May 2009 18\:21\:42 +0200")
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> Is it? Does it really make sense to have a tag named "foo" point to a tag object
> that in turn points to a tag object without a tag ref? I mean, if you're signing
> a tag, it makes sense to want to keep the original tag around so people can
> reference it. If you want to *replace* a tag, it doesn't make sense to create
> this chain which, iiuc, goes something like this:
>
> tag ref -> tag object -> tag object without ref -> something
>
> Honestly, I can see how this turned out to be confusing, as you end up with a
> tag object without a tag, but a new tag in its place. Not to mention that the
> new tag won't be push-able without --force in case the old tag was pushed earlier.
Suppose the gpg key used to sign v1.6.3 somehow gets compromised, and I
come up with a new gpg key. I could reassure people that the commit the
old v1.6.3 tagged is genuine if I re-tag with the new key like this:
git tag -f v1.6.3 v1.6.3^{commit}
But what should I do if I would want to reassure people that both the old
v1.6.3 was tagged by _me_ (with the old key that later was compromised)
and that the commit that old tag tags is genuine?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-15 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-14 0:53 git-tag bug? confusing git fast-export with double tag objects Matthias Andree
2009-05-14 2:13 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-14 3:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-14 9:37 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-14 12:00 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-05-14 12:16 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-14 12:51 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-14 13:16 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-14 13:39 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-14 13:42 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-05-14 18:02 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-14 19:01 ` Brandon Casey
2009-05-14 18:22 ` Jeff King
2009-05-14 22:35 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-15 2:02 ` Jeff King
2009-05-15 12:23 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-15 13:22 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-15 14:54 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-05-15 15:51 ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-15 16:14 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-15 16:21 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-15 17:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-05-16 7:14 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-16 7:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-16 8:02 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-16 17:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-19 11:21 ` Matthias Andree
2009-05-19 11:29 ` Jeff King
2009-05-16 5:07 ` Jeff King
2009-05-15 16:00 ` Daniel Cheng
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