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Re: Remote helpers and signed tags

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 8, 2013, 00:02 UTC
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On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The remote helper infrastructure is certainly being unhelpful here.  I
> wonder if transport-helper should just pass --signed-tag=strip and be
> done with it (leaving open the possibility of a capability to switch
> to --signed-tag=verbatim when someone wants to teach the testgit
> helper to support that).  What do you think?

I think that's (at least for now) the right thing to do. Passing anything but signed-tag=strip should be triggered by a capability from the helper, since most helpers won't know how to deal with signed tags.

-- Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
Previous: Jonathan NiederNext: John Keeping
Message 3 of 14 in “Remote helpers and signed tags”
  1. John KeepingApr 7, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederApr 7, 2013
  3. Sverre RabbelierApr 8, 2013
  4. 0/3 Handle signed tags with 'export' remote helpersJohn Keeping, Apr 14, 2013
  5. 1/3 fast-export: add --signed-tags=warn-strip modeJohn Keeping, Apr 14, 2013
  6. Sverre RabbelierApr 16, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  8. Sverre RabbelierApr 16, 2013
  9. John KeepingApr 16, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  11. Sverre RabbelierApr 17, 2013
  12. Jonathan NiederApr 16, 2013
  13. 2/3 transport-helper: pass --signed-tags=warn-strip to fast-exportJohn Keeping, Apr 14, 2013
  14. 3/3 transport-helper: add 'signed-tags' capabilityJohn Keeping, Apr 14, 2013

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