From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Recommend these .gitconfig settings for git integrity. Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:54:47 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56B0ED67.4030207@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87a8nlfqj9.fsf@red-bean.com> <83h9ht1o8q.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvrle8ho.fsf@red-bean.com> <56AE8126.9090708@cs.ucla.edu> <87wpqo77yc.fsf@red-bean.com> <87bn80ifmh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <56AF896A.3090104@cs.ucla.edu> <877fioidb4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87egcw716d.fsf@red-bean.com> <56B0CD33.7090808@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454435710 9052 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2016 17:55:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:55:10 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 02 18:55:01 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQfAK-0006WD-IG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:55:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58700 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQfAK-0001uR-3a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:55:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56281) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQfAE-0001rA-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQfA9-0004az-Jl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:54:54 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:48688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQfA9-0004at-EL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281151601F0 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:54:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id wj1KtZEoum2z for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:54:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEA3160522 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:54:47 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id fPcX9mni9P_M for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:54:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A2CC1601F0 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 09:54:47 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199179 Archived-At: On 02/02/2016 09:24 AM, Tom wrote: > In order to check it the client compares it with something, so it knows > it received the right thing. I guess the server can also do such a > comparison, By then it's too late, if the client omitted the check earlier. The client can generate commits with valid checksums, commits that contain data from the unchecked and incorrect commits. It can then send the commits-with-valid-checksums to the server.