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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@dwim.me>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] gpg: add support for gpgsm
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:49:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq60w2r6kq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160331142200.GB31116@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:22:00 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> But maybe we could pull this out to a separate config option, like
> "commit.defaultSignatureType", which could be either "gpg", "gpgsm", or
> "auto" to enable the behavior you have here.  Then savvy users can pick
> the type they plan to use.

Yes, I think the topic should start without "auto" guessing mode
to get the basics right; guessing mode can come after we are
comfortable with the solidness of the resulting codebase.

> And regardless of the default type for creating signatures, we'd still
> automatically verify signatures from either type.

Again, true, as long as we can tell which program to use to verify,
there is no guesswork involved, and this can and should be in the
early part of the topic.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-31 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-31 13:51 [RFC PATCH] gpg: add support for gpgsm Carlos Martín Nieto
2016-03-31 14:22 ` Jeff King
2016-03-31 14:44   ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2016-03-31 15:49   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-03-31 15:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-31 15:57   ` Jeff King
2016-03-31 16:08   ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2016-03-31 17:30     ` Jeff King

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