From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:49:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Signed tags in octopus merge..
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In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzRN2F5PZDZPRmbj9occZwA6E6Pi+S+M_Qq2EfS6sctyA@mail.gmail.com>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> Just a heads-up and congrats: octopus merges of signed tags work well,
> and did exactly the RightThing(tm), both at merge time and with
> "--show-signature".
>
> I knew it was supposed to work, but I have to admit that I was a bit
> apprehensive about it when I tried.
>
> Current top-of-head (commit 81d48f0aee54) in the kernel, in case you care.

I looked at it again, and it makes me wonder if we should further reword
it to say "side branch #1, tagged 'devicetree-for-linus'" instead of the
current "parent #2, tagged 'devicetree-for-linus'". It looks very weird to
start counting from #2, when we know we will never show #1 there.