From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:47:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Tags
Message-ID: <42C6D318.8050108@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <m1hdfdg0aa.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> However all you have to do for your single system git repository is
> to filter tags at creation time.  So for a person to upload something
> you need a git aware tool and you need authentication so you are certain
> it is the right person creating the tag.  
> 

That's complicated; it pretty much works out to having to have a PKI and 
a system of registered IDs, or some such.  That's painful.

	-hpa