Re: weaning distributions off tarballs: extended verification of git tags

I support this proposal, as someone who no longer releases tarballs of my software, when I can possibly avoid it. I have worried about signed tags / commits only being a SHA1 break away from useless.

As to the implementation, checksumming the collection of raw objects is certainly superior to tar. Colin had suggested sorting the objects by checksum, but I don't think that is necessary. Just stream the commit object, then its tree object, followed by the content of each object listed in the tree, recursing into subtrees as necessary. That will be a stable stream for a given commit, or tree.