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Re: Using signed tag in pull requests

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Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 18, 2012, 02:34 UTC
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On 18 January 2012 12:47, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Starting from Git release v1.7.9, a contributor can add a signed tag to
>>> the commit at the tip of the history and ask the integrator to pull that
>>> signed tag. When the integrator runs `git pull`, the signed tag is
>>> automatically verified to assure that the history is not tampered with.
>>> In addition, the resulting merge commit records the content of the signed
>>> tag, so that other people can verify that the branch merged by the
>>> contributor was signed by the contributor, without fetching the signed tag
>>
>> I think you mean to say 'the branch merged by the integrator was signed
>> by the contributor'.
>
> Definitely. I'll update my local copy.
>
> Thanks for spotting this.
No worries. That's the whole point right? :D
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