Re: Git-commits mailing list feed.

LT> I really want the resulting file to look like

LT> commit .... LT> tag ...

LT> here goes comment LT> here goes signature

LT> and no headers.

You can use --detach-sign with --armor, like this.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
#!/bin/sh

sq=s/\'/\''\\'\'\'/g
usage="usage: $0  [--signer=...] commit-id tag < message"
while case "$#" in 0) break;; esac
do
 case "$1" in
 -s=*|--s=*|--si=*|--sig=*|--sign=*|--signe=*|--signer=*)
  signer=`expr "$1" : '-[^=]*=\(.*\)'` ;;
 -s|--s|--si|--sig|--sign|--signe|--signer)
  case "$#" in 0 | 1) echo "$usage"; exit 1 ;; esac
  signer="${2?}"
  shift ;;
 --)
  shift
  break ;;
 -*)
  echo "$usage"
  exit 1 ;;
 *)
  break ;;
 esac
 shift
done

case "$#" in 2) echo >&2 "$usage"; exit 1 ;; esac commit="$1" tag="$2"

case "$signer" in '') signer_arg='' ;; ?*) signer_arg="--local-user '$(echo "$signer" | sed -e "$sq")'" ;; esac

tmp=.jit-tag.$$ trap 'rm -f $tmp-*' 0 1 2 3 15 tagblob=$tmp-tagblob tagsign=$tmp-tagsign

case $(cat-file -t "$commit" 2>/dev/null) in
commit) ;;
*) echo >&2 "$0: $commit is not a commit object"; exit 1 ;;
esac
{
    echo "commit $commit"
    echo "tag $tag"
    case "$signer" in
    '') ;;
    ?*) echo "signer $signer" ;;
    esac
    echo
    tty -s && echo >&2 "Type your tag message and end with ^D."
    cat
} >$tagblob || exit
gpgcmd="gpg $signer_arg -a --output $tagsign --detach-sign $tagblob"
eval "$gpgcmd" || exit
cat $tagblob $tagsign