Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] fast-export, fast-import: add support for signed-commits

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> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Luke Shumaker sent the first 4 versions of this series in April 2021,
> > but it looks like he stopped before it got merged. Let's finish
> > polishing it.
>
> Nice to see an old topic resurrected.
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> > fast-export has an existing --signed-tags= option that controls how to
> > handle tag signatures.  However, there is no equivalent for commit
> > signatures; it just silently strips the signature out of the commit
> > (analogously to --signed-tags=strip).
> >
> > So implement a --signed-commits= flag in fast-export, and implement
> > the receiving side of it in fast-import.
>
> Nice.
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> I haven't thought about this topic obviously for a looooong time,
> but I wonder we may want to have an option, which is independent
> from these --signed-tags/--signed-commits options addressed here,
> that allows the person who performed the import to attest to the
> result by adding their own signature on tags and commits, whether
> these tags and commits were originally signed or not.