From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:26:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Expose gpgsig in pretty-print
Message-ID: <xmqqa7l7d48r.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <1544760713.970.1.camel@gentoo.org>

Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> writes:

> Just a suggestion: since the raw signature is not very useful without
> the commit data to check it against, and the commit data is non-trivial
> to construct (requires mangling raw data anyway), maybe you could either
> add another placeholder to get the data for signature verification, or
> (alternatively or simultaneously) add a placeholder that prints both
> data and signature in the OpenPGP message format (i.e. something you can
> pass straight to 'gpg --verify').

Yeah, the last would be the most usable; anything short of that, I
have to suspect that going from "cat-file commit", rather than using
this new %Gsomething placeholder, would be more practical.