linux-kernel - Re: email as a bona fide git transport

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Message-ID: <20191017204532.GA6446@chatter.i7.local>
Date:   Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:45:32 -0400
From:   Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:     Santiago Torres Arias <santiago@....edu>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
        Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
        workflows@...r.kernel.org, Git Mailing List <git@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Eric Wong <e@...24.org>
Subject: Re: email as a bona fide git transport

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 01:43:43PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> I wonder if it'd be also possible to then embed gpg signatures over
>> send-mail payloads so as they can be transparently transferred to the
>> commit.
>
>That's a crazy idea.  It would be nice if we could do that, I like it 
>:)

It could only possibly work if nobody ever adds their own 
"Signed-Off-By" or any other bylines. I expect this is a deal-breaker 
for most maintainers.

-K