HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

[Waitman Gobble]

On 2020-12-17 21:53, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> > I hope we don't have to start signing all commits.  saltstack/salt has
>> > that policy, and it's extremely annoying.
> 
>> Have to? Not currently. As with all process changes, there will be
>> community discussion around the different points.
> 
>> Warner
> 
> I hope not!
> 
> Signatures, at least in email messages, are just an annoyance as I see 
> them.
> 
> I don't even know how do sign an email message or make use of a
> signature in a message I receive.
> 
> I have never made a commit to a repository, so would not be familiar
> with signatures there; imagine it would be a barrier.
> 
> Tom
> 
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I'm not a FreeBSD committer, but on other git projects I sign my 
commits. AFAIK it's a good idea.

I'm curious what is annoying about it? It's just adding the 'sign' tag. 
If you want a portable GPG key check out something like a yubikey. I'm 
sure there's other portable hardware options.

# git commit -S -m "message"

You can also set to always sign automatically,

# git config --global commit.gpgsign true


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