Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] builtin/verify-tag: move verification code to tag.c

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 7:16 PM,  <santiago@nyu.edu> wrote:
> The PGP verification routine for tags could be accessed by other
> commands that require it. We do this by moving it to the common tag.c
> code. We rename the verify_tag() function to pgp_verify_tag() to avoid
> conflicts with the mktag.c function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu.edu>
> ---
> -       len = parse_signature(buf, size);
> -
> -       if (size == len) {
> -               if (flags & GPG_VERIFY_VERBOSE)
> -                       write_in_full(1, buf, len);
> -               return error("no signature found");
> -       }
> [...]
> +       payload_size = parse_signature(buf, size);
> +
> +       if (size == payload_size) {
> +               write_in_full(1, buf, payload_size);
> +               return error("No PGP signature found in this tag!");
> +       }

Also, [1] asked why the moved code no longer respects
GPG_VERIFY_VERBOSE, and that question doesn't seem to be answered
either in the previous review thread or by this patch's commit
message. It's not clear at a casual glance why this change is
desirable.

[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/289977