Re: email as a bona fide git transport

From: Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Oct 18, 2019, 16:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20191018161547.GG21137@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <56664222-6c29-09dc-ef78-7b380b113c4a@oracle.com>

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 04:27:48PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:

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> commit ac30b08065cd55362a7244a3bbc8df3563cefaaa
> tree 8f09d9d6ed78f8617b2fe54fe9712990ba808546
> parent 108b97dc372828f0e72e56bbb40cae8e1e83ece6
> author Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> 1570284959 +0200
> committer Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> 1571408340 +0200
> gpgsig -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Would it perhaps be possible to put some or all of these headers after the patch, as a set of "trailers"? That would make it easier for human readers of the e-mail to get the bits that they most care about.... namely, the patch itself. :-)

If we move the PGP signature to the end, then the fact that it is so big and bulky becomes much less of an issue. A mini-sig might still be a cool thing, from a space savings perspective both in the mail archives, and in the git repo itself, if we start signing all commits. But that seems like a separable issue.

Thanks,

					- Ted