From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [3/4] What's not in 1.5.2 (new topics) Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 13:36:00 +0100 Message-ID: <200705181336.01563.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <200705170539.11402.andyparkins@gmail.com> <200705181040.37648.andyparkins@gmail.com> <20070518112202.GE4708@mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Josef Weidendorfer , Junio C Hamano , Nicolas Pitre To: git@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri May 18 14:36:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hp1hF-0000bo-LG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2007 14:36:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754977AbXERMgI (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 08:36:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753170AbXERMgI (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 08:36:08 -0400 Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.204.237]:29987 "EHLO qb-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755127AbXERMgH (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 08:36:07 -0400 Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id q11so601577qbq for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 05:36:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=oF1SqBwGRVZfoo9rpX9uJ0UJXwFYZByB20wJBnl4ThpvFUAogWxvqq/beCCrEdYEoa6s8OGpGajOLSx517f7QurmPlWBrsQ/obuoAO6OE0nsTbLtqgibtGFnIwdZfESSQBndfauwWIxoMaRwimpOplhZNmYoGa1cPCW3DvbjoAk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=HY1CujqHKVUxIlEU5z2gJqhV4+o6i9EQCyO+71oZ2ulhxEvH3LjG99fEpoSsvrx0MyUYGTL7DRQHSq23p+jwTa6QCaYS1t/ChDEueLdzvYEWCTABZc1peHU84gHGq8IhOAG+YMLxV1gwJwszjpbIAjJtateHzI/afDklS+4Ag/Q= Received: by 10.65.148.19 with SMTP id a19mr6253839qbo.1179491765400; Fri, 18 May 2007 05:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z21sm3909103qbc.2007.05.18.05.36.03; Fri, 18 May 2007 05:36:04 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <20070518112202.GE4708@mellanox.co.il> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Friday 2007 May 18, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Why is that? Content is what is important. URLs are only a convenience > measure to help clients find the content. The link must have a commit > hash, so git can *verify* that the content is correct. Where it comes from > must be irrelevant. > > So if someone looks at my tree, and does not know where to get the content, > he might want my hint on this. True. Hannes also pointed out that the trust comes from the hash contained in the gitlink that is in tree, there is no need to assign trust to the URL. I withdraw my objection. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com