Re: can Git encrypt/decrypt .gpg on push/fetch?

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Sep 9, 2011, 19:12 UTC
Message-ID: <4E6A653B.9090007@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvct1tu3n.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 09.09.2011 21:05:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
>>> B) Keep blobs encrypted, checkout decrypted
>>> - Use Use "*.gpg filter=gpg" in your attributes and
>>> [filter "gpg"]
>>> 	smudge = gpg -d
>>> 	clean = gpg -e -r yourgpgkey
>>>   in your config.
>>>
>>> I use A on a regular basis. B is untested (but patterned after a similar
>>> gzip filter I use). You may or may not have better results with "gpg -ea".
>>
>> Yeah, I think that would work but have never tried it either.
> 
> Unless "gpg -e" encrypts the same cleartext into the same cyphertext every
> time, the above "clean" filter probably wouldn't be very useful.
>

Uh, right, this would only make sense with specific versions of debian's openssl then. Only that gpg does not use that ;)

I'm not sure whether "gpg --symmetric" has the same issue, but version A) seemed better before that already.

Michael