Re: Tags

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Jul 2, 2005, 17:58 UTC
Message-ID: <42C6D5AD.9070304@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <m1k6k9drfk.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:

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> 
> ?? Isn't that what ssh is?
> 
> To some extent a lot depends on how active you expect people to
> try and forge things.  If there is an expectation of honesty
> you are fine.  
>

I can't afford to have that.

> If you want to build one mondo repository with thousands of developers
> having write access you need to be more careful.  But as far as I know
> none of that is specific to tags.

Well, you're wrong. Tags is the only part of git which cannot be protected by git's own self-validation system.

	-hpa

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