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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2025, 16:56 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqikoyklo9.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BHDx4YAjCqWX_VUjHQQ-r1iDbw7UcUgLXtt1ZAJjNXD-Q@mail.gmail.com>

Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

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>> This is also exactly the usecase we have been reviving this effort for
>> :) We recently hit such a case where a customer was basically unable to
>> use git-filter-repo(1) due to commit signatures, so we wanted to help
>> out and get this patch series landed so that the issue can ultimately be
>> addressed in git-filter-repo(1).
>
> I'm confused; this patch series doesn't implement the option Junio and
> I were talking about.  It only allows existing signatures to be
> carried as-is, as opposed to resigning all the commits with the
> current user's signature.

I read the "can ultimately be" as "this series lays the groundwork by upstreaming what the earlier effort started and stops there. a future follow-up work will build on this to add more".