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Re: Remote helpers and signed tags

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 7, 2013, 21:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20130407214626.GC19857@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To
<20130407103418.GT2222@serenity.lan>
Hi John,
John Keeping wrote:
> It appears to be impossible to push signed tags using a remote helper
> that supports only fast-export.
[...]
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>     fatal: Encountered signed tag 572a535454612a046e7dd7404dcca94d6243c788;
>         use --signed-tag=<mode> to handle it.
>     fatal: Error while running fast-export
>
> which is not particularly helpful for a user who doesn't know how the
> remote helper is implemented
Yeah, this is idiotic.

The remote helper infrastructure is certainly being unhelpful here. I wonder if transport-helper should just pass --signed-tag=strip and be done with it (leaving open the possibility of a capability to switch to --signed-tag=verbatim when someone wants to teach the testgit helper to support that). What do you think?

Thanks, Jonathan

Previous: John KeepingNext: Sverre Rabbelier
Message 2 of 14 in “Remote helpers and signed tags”
  1. John KeepingApr 7, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederApr 7, 2013
  3. Sverre RabbelierApr 8, 2013
  4. 0/3 Handle signed tags with 'export' remote helpersJohn Keeping, Apr 14, 2013
  5. 1/3 fast-export: add --signed-tags=warn-strip modeJohn Keeping, Apr 14, 2013
  6. Sverre RabbelierApr 16, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  8. Sverre RabbelierApr 16, 2013
  9. John KeepingApr 16, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  11. Sverre RabbelierApr 17, 2013
  12. Jonathan NiederApr 16, 2013
  13. 2/3 transport-helper: pass --signed-tags=warn-strip to fast-exportJohn Keeping, Apr 14, 2013
  14. 3/3 transport-helper: add 'signed-tags' capabilityJohn Keeping, Apr 14, 2013

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