linux-kernel - Re: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes)

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Date:	Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:38:54 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>, git@...r.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates, GPG signed (but see admin notes)

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> Didn't realize that... I guess I'm too used to named remotes.
>
> If so, just using a tag should be fine, no?

Yes, that's what I think. But the argument for using a separate
namespace is that
 (a) you never get confused
 (b) it would make it easier to make the 1:1 relationship between
branch names and these "pull request signature tags" without limiting
the naming of *normal* tags in any way
 (c) they do have separate lifetimes from "real" tags.

But seriously, I don't care about the *implementation* all that much.
If people want to use the crazy git "notes" capability, you can do
that too, although quite frankly, I don't see the point. What actually
matters is that "git push" and "git pull" would JustWork(tm), and
check the signature if one exists, without having to cut-and-paste
data that simply shouldn't be visible to the user.

I abhor the interface Ingo suggested, for example. Why would we have
stupid command line options that we should cut-and-paste? Automation
is for computers, not for people.

                          Linus
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