Re: Working with public-inbox.org [Was: [PATCH] rev-parse: respect core.hooksPath in --git-path]

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 25, 2016, 13:08 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1608251504030.4924@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <20160824191651.GC8578@whir>

Hi Eric,

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Eric Wong wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Now, with somebody like me who would lose a lot when destroying trust,
> > it is highly unlikely. But it is possible that in between the hundreds
> > of sincere contributors a bad apple tries to sneak in bad stuff.
> 
> Yes, I would never mix reviews + patch applications of emails vs
> git-fetched data.

Well, such a categorical statement seems to exclude all convenience I had in mind.

My idea was that, say, a web service running on a trusted server with a trusted code base could send mails that would be trusted to contain correct SHA-1 information, allowing for a review in the mail, but still use the much, much more convenient Git tools to actually work on the code.

I really hope that not everybody is so categorically against introducing much needed convenience.

Ciao, Dscho