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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>,
	Kyle Neath <kneath@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:12:39 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buopqjaw2vc.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E69C8DC.7060008@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>> Agreed. Anything harder than ssh keys is right out the window,
>> because they're always the alternative these people could be using
>> (but can't or don't want to).
>
> Sue, the question was: What is easy enough? I hoped that people
> would be using gpg to check signed tags, and that there might be a
> simple, convenient gnupg installer for Win and Mac which ties into
> the respective wallet systems or provides one they use already.

I wouldn't be surprised if many people just don't check signed tags at
all -- if the repositories they're using even have them in the first
place -- particularly amongst the audience in question.

-miles

-- 
What the fuck do white people have to be blue about!?  Banana Republic ran
out of Khakis?  The Espresso Machine is jammed?  Hootie and The Blowfish
are breaking up??!  Shit, white people oughtta understand, their job is to
GIVE people the blues, not to get them!  -- George Carlin

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-09  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-07  5:33 The imporantance of including http credential caching in 1.7.7 Kyle Neath
2011-09-07  7:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-09-07  8:11   ` Kyle Neath
2011-09-07 11:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-07 12:56 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-07 20:14   ` Kyle Neath
2011-09-07 21:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-07 23:01     ` Philip Oakley
2011-09-07 23:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-08 13:17     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-08 15:02       ` John Szakmeister
2011-09-08 19:18         ` Jeff King
2011-09-09  8:05           ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-09  8:12             ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-09-09 18:27             ` Jeff King
2011-09-08 19:10   ` Jeff King
2011-09-09  8:06     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-09-09 10:15       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-09 10:32         ` John Szakmeister
2011-09-09 10:48           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-09-09 10:54             ` John Szakmeister
2011-09-09 13:33               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-09 13:31           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-09 18:34       ` Jeff King

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