Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261703AbVDWTGB (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:06:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261714AbVDWTGB (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:06:01 -0400 Received: from simmts6.bellnexxia.net ([206.47.199.164]:58623 "EHLO simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261703AbVDWTFv (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:05:51 -0400 Message-ID: <2911.10.10.10.24.1114279589.squirrel@linux1> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:06:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed. From: "Sean" To: "Linus Torvalds" Cc: "Thomas Glanzmann" , "David Woodhouse" , "Jan Dittmer" , "Greg KH" , "Kernel Mailing List" , "Git Mailing List" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal References: <200504210422.j3L4Mo8L021495@hera.kernel.org> <42674724.90005@ppp0.net> <20050422002922.GB6829@kroah.com> <426A4669.7080500@ppp0.net> <1114266083.3419.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <426A5BFC.1020507@ppp0.net> <1114266907.3419.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050423175422.GA7100@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1300 Lines: 38 On Sat, April 23, 2005 2:30 pm, Linus Torvalds said: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: >> # This creates the signature. >> gpg --clearsign < sign_this > signature > > This really doesn't work for me - I do not want to have the gpg header above it, only the signature below. Since I want git to actually understand the tags, but do _not_ want git to have to know about whatever > signing method was used, I really want the resulting file to look like > > commit .... > tag ... > > here goes comment > here goes signature > > and no headers. > > Whether that can be faked by always forcing SHA1 as the hash, and then just removing the top lines, and re-inserting them when verifying, or whether there is some mode to make gpg not do the header crud at all, I don't know. Which is exactly why I never even got started. Linus, A script that knows how to validate signed tags, can easly strip off all the signing overhead for display. Users of scripts that don't understand will see the cruft, but at least it will still be usable. Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/