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

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFyRawm9CoJMiEXDFCX4YTidPOiV4oqSS2d7nNv7Ecw8BQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:09:55 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
Cc:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Shawn Pearce <spearce@...arce.org>,
	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 Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com> wrote:
>
> Ahh, sorry for the noise. I realize that we already have a winner, namely,
> the proposal outlined in your message I was responding to.

No, no, don't consider my "put in the merge message" a winner at all.

I personally dislike it, and don't really think it's a wonderful thing
at all. I really does have real downsides:

 - internal signatures really *are* a disaster for maintenance. You
can never fix them if they need fixing (and "need fixing" may well be
"you want to re-sign things after a repository format change")

 - they are ugly as heck, and you really don't want to see them in
99.999% of all cases.

So putting those things iin the merge commit message may have some
upsides, but it has tons of downsides too.

I think your refs/audit/ idea should be given real thought, because
maybe that's the right idea.

                           Linus
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