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From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
To: GIT Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: weaning distributions off tarballs: extended verification of git tags
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 14:12:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150302181230.GA31798@kitenet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425316197.895196.234425829.536E6C06@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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I support this proposal, as someone who no longer releases tarballs
of my software, when I can possibly avoid it. I have worried about
signed tags / commits only being a SHA1 break away from useless.

As to the implementation, checksumming the collection of raw objects is
certainly superior to tar. Colin had suggested sorting the objects by
checksum, but I don't think that is necessary. Just stream the commit
object, then its tree object, followed by the content of each object
listed in the tree, recursing into subtrees as necessary. That will be a
stable stream for a given commit, or tree.

-- 
see shy jo

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-02 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-28 14:48 weaning distributions off tarballs: extended verification of git tags Colin Walters
2015-02-28 19:14 ` brian m. carlson
2015-02-28 20:34 ` Morten Welinder
2015-03-02 17:09   ` Colin Walters
2015-03-02 18:12     ` Joey Hess [this message]
2015-03-02 19:38       ` Sam Vilain
2015-03-02 20:08         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-02 20:52           ` Sam Vilain
2015-03-02 23:20       ` Duy Nguyen
2015-03-02 23:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-03  0:42           ` Duy Nguyen
2015-03-05 12:36           ` Michael Haggerty
2015-07-08  4:00 ` Colin Walters

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