Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Signed push

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 06:42:58PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

With the appropriate conventions, such as using a tag name such as signed-<email>-<timestamp>" we can at least avoid name conflicts, at least for all practical purposes.

There is the additional problem that "git tag -l" gets painful. At least for me, though, it's already mostly useless:

   % git tag -l | grep ^v[23] | wc -l
   858

I can work around this with git aliases that filter out certain prefixes that I normally don't care about, but maybe that's something that should be directly supported in git-tag with some git-config parameters.

The final issue that I'd worry about with using tags is performance. If we have hundreds of thousands or millions of tags of the form signed-<email>-<timestamp>, is this going to be a problem? This does seem like something that could be worked around --- in the worst case there could just be a locally maintained reverse index from git commit id's to tag names. (Although as I recall Linus objected to having something like this for time skews, so maybe he'd object to this too.)

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