Re: Using signed tag in pull requests

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Tue Jan 17 2012 - 20:47:16 EST


Andrew Ardill <andrew.ardill@xxxxxxxxx> 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.


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