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Re: email as a bona fide git transport

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LPLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Date
Oct 20, 2019, 05:50 UTC
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<20191020055033.GD4991@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>
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<20191018013029.GA1167832@kroah.com>
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 06:30:29PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 04:45:32PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 01:43:43PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> I wonder if it'd be also possible to then embed gpg signatures over
> >>> send-mail payloads so as they can be transparently transferred to the
> >>> commit.
> >> 
> >> That's a crazy idea.  It would be nice if we could do that, I like it :)
> > 
> > It could only possibly work if nobody ever adds their own "Signed-Off-By" or
> > any other bylines. I expect this is a deal-breaker for most maintainers.
> 
> Yeah it is :(
> 
> But, if we could just have the signature on the code change, not the
> changelog text, that would help with that issue.

I ran into a related issue recently when thinking about how to implement server-side workflows (for a non-kernel project). My goal is to ensure a patch can only be pushed to the master branch if it has received review. The easy way to do so it to check the Reviewed-by tags, but those can easily be forged. I was thus wondering if we should have a way to sign tags (as in commit message tags, not git tags).

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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  2. Willy TarreauOct 16, 2019
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  4. Greg KHOct 17, 2019
  5. Konstantin RyabitsevOct 17, 2019
  6. Greg KHOct 18, 2019
  7. Konstantin RyabitsevOct 18, 2019
  8. Willy TarreauOct 18, 2019
  9. Nicolas BelouinOct 18, 2019
  10. Santiago Torres AriasOct 18, 2019
  11. Laurent PinchartOct 20, 2019
  12. Vegard NossumOct 18, 2019
  13. Theodore Y. Ts'oOct 18, 2019
  14. Vegard NossumOct 18, 2019
  15. Theodore Y. Ts'oOct 18, 2019
  16. Willy TarreauOct 20, 2019
  17. Vegard NossumOct 20, 2019
  18. Vegard NossumOct 22, 2019
  19. Theodore Y. Ts'oOct 22, 2019
  20. Vegard NossumOct 22, 2019
  21. Eric WongOct 22, 2019
  22. Santiago Torres AriasOct 18, 2019
  23. Konstantin RyabitsevOct 18, 2019
  24. Santiago Torres AriasOct 18, 2019
  25. Konstantin RyabitsevOct 18, 2019
  26. Pratyush YadavOct 16, 2019
  27. Vegard NossumOct 17, 2019
  28. Theodore Y. Ts'oOct 17, 2019
  29. Vegard NossumOct 17, 2019
  30. Theodore Y. Ts'oOct 17, 2019
  31. Steven RostedtOct 17, 2019
  32. Jonathan NiederOct 16, 2019
  33. Vegard NossumOct 17, 2019
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  35. Vegard NossumOct 17, 2019
  36. Eric WongOct 18, 2019

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