Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262422AbVDYBst (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:48:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262433AbVDYBst (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:48:49 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:12933 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262422AbVDYBsp (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:48:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:50:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: "David A. Wheeler" cc: Paul Jakma , Sean , Thomas Glanzmann , David Woodhouse , Jan Dittmer , Greg KH , Kernel Mailing List , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Git-commits mailing list feed. In-Reply-To: <426C4168.6030008@dwheeler.com> Message-ID: 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> <2911.10.10.10.24.1114279589.squirrel@linux1> <426C4168.6030008@dwheeler.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1009 Lines: 25 On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, David A. Wheeler wrote: > > It may be better to have them as simple detached signatures, which are > completely separate files (see gpg --detached). > Yeah, gpg currently implements detached signatures > by repeating what gets signed, which is unfortunate, > but the _idea_ is the right one. Actually, if we do totally separate files, then the detached thing is ok, and we migth decide to not call the objects at all, since that seems to be unnecessarily complex. Maybe we'll just have signed tags by doing exactly that: just a collection of detached signature files. The question becomes one of how to name such things in a distributed tree. That is the thing that using an object for them would have solved very naturally. Linus - 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/