From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:15:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Transparently encrypt repository contents with GPG
Message-ID: <200903131215.49336.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <49BA39A1.9090203@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber wrote:
> "git help attributes" may help: look for filter and set attributes and
> config (filter.$name.{clean,smudge}) accordingly. smudge should probably
> decrypt, clean should encrypt.

Wouldn't this trip over the randomness included in all encryption [to
avoid generating the same cyphertext for two separate identical
messages, which gives away some information], which would let git
think the file has been changed as soon as its stat info has changed
(or is just racy)?

Not to mention that this makes most source-oriented features such as
diff, blame, merge, etc., rather useless.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch