From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Ben Toews <mastahyeti@gmail.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>, Ben Toews <btoews@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] gpg-interface: handle alternative signature types
Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 00:18:43 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1senpk8c.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180507094459.GA3412@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 7 May 2018 05:45:00 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 12:12:12AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
>
>> > That argues more strongly that we would regret unless we make the
>> > end-user configuration to at least the whole string (which later can
>> > be promoted to "a pattern that matches the whole string"), not just
>> > the part after mandatory "-----BEGIN ", methinks.
>>
>> Yeah, I think this patch set is "add gpgsm support", which I can see as
>> a valuable goal in and of itself, but I'm not sure the attempt to make
>> it generic is in the right place. If we want to be truly generic, the
>> way to do that is to invoke a helper based on signature type (e.g.
>> git-sign-gpg, git-sign-gpgsm, git-sign-signify) to do the signing and
>> verification. We need not ship these helpers ourselves; interested
>> third-parties can provide them, and we can add configuration to match
>> against regexes for non-built-in types (which is required for many other
>> formats).
>
> Isn't that basically what this patch is, though? Or at least a step in
> that direction?
I think that is what Brian is saying, too (and if so I would also
agree). It probably is a good step. It is just the feature may be
sold under a wrong (or, overly wide) label, perhaps?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-07 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-09 20:41 [PATCH 0/8] gpg-interface: Multiple signing tools Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 1/8] gpg-interface: handle bool user.signingkey Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:55 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-10 14:32 ` Jeff King
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 2/8] gpg-interface: modernize function declarations Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 3/8] gpg-interface: use size_t for signature buffer size Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 4/8] gpg-interface: fix const-correctness of "eol" pointer Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 5/8] gpg-interface: extract gpg line matching helper Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 6/8] gpg-interface: find the last gpg signature line Ben Toews
2018-04-09 21:13 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-10 9:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-10 14:47 ` Ben Toews
2018-04-10 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-10 22:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-11 15:19 ` Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 7/8] gpg-interface: prepare for parsing arbitrary PEM blocks Ben Toews
2018-04-09 20:41 ` [PATCH 8/8] gpg-interface: handle alternative signature types Ben Toews
2018-04-09 21:01 ` Stefan Beller
2018-04-10 8:24 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-04-10 15:00 ` Ben Toews
2018-04-14 19:59 ` brian m. carlson
2018-04-16 5:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-17 0:12 ` brian m. carlson
2018-04-17 1:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-17 18:08 ` Ben Toews
2018-04-17 18:33 ` Taylor Blau
2018-05-03 16:03 ` Ben Toews
2018-05-07 9:45 ` Jeff King
2018-05-07 15:18 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-05-07 23:06 ` brian m. carlson
2018-05-08 13:28 ` Jeff King
2018-05-08 23:09 ` brian m. carlson
2018-05-09 8:03 ` Jeff King
2018-04-10 9:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-04-10 16:01 ` Ben Toews
2018-04-11 10:11 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] gpg-interface: Multiple signing tools Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] t7004: fix mistaken tag name Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] gpg-interface: handle bool user.signingkey Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] gpg-interface: modernize function declarations Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] gpg-interface: use size_t for signature buffer size Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] gpg-interface: fix const-correctness of "eol" pointer Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] gpg-interface: extract gpg line matching helper Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] gpg-interface: find the last gpg signature line Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] gpg-interface: prepare for parsing arbitrary PEM blocks Ben Toews
2018-04-13 21:18 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] gpg-interface: handle alternative signature types Ben Toews
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