Re: email as a bona fide git transport

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 04:45:32PM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 01:43:43PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > I wonder if it'd be also possible to then embed gpg signatures over
> > > send-mail payloads so as they can be transparently transferred to the
> > > commit.
> > 
> > That's a crazy idea.  It would be nice if we could do that, I like it :)
> 
> It could only possibly work if nobody ever adds their own "Signed-Off-By" or
> any other bylines. I expect this is a deal-breaker for most maintainers.

Yeah it is :(

But, if we could just have the signature on the code change, not the
changelog text, that would help with that issue.

thanks,

rgeg k-h