Re: [RFC/PATCH] verify-tag: check sig of all tags to given object

From: Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2012, 05:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20120204055656.GC2477@tgrennan-laptop>
In-Reply-To: <7vsjirjhp7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 09:22:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>Tom Grennan <tmgrennan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Wouldn't you want Shawn and Jeff to tag the object (commit, tree, or
>> blob) that you had tagged?
>
>No.
>
>We _designed_ our tag objects so that they are capable of pointing at
>another tag, not the object that is pointed at that other tag.  And that
>is the example usage I gave you.
>
>The statement by Shawn and Jeff, "This tag is Gitster's" is exactly that.
>It was not about asserting the authenticity of the commit. It was about
>the tag object I created.

Hmm, how about "git verify-tag [[-v] [--to]] <tag|object>"? With "--to", all tags to the given tag (or object) are verified. Without "--to" just the given <tag> is verified.

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>>    gitster$ git verify-tag --pointed v1.7.10
>>    tag v1.7.10: OK
>
>Just saying "$name: OK" will *never* be acceptable. "A signature made by
>any key in my keychain is fine" is not the usual use case. At least the
>output needs to be "Good signature from X".

OK, I'll have to play with the gpg --verify-options.

-- 
TomG