Re: [PATCH 0/1] Update Git to 2.9.0

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 04:01:25PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> OK.  It would be bad if ‘git rebase’ would silently discard signatures.
>> Thanks for paying attention to this!
>
> I'm not sure what you mean exactly. If you rebase some signed commits,
> the commits whose history changes will lose their signatures, because
> they are no longer the same commits. But, I noticed this with previous
> versions of Git also.
>
> Because we never rewrite history once it's been on Savannah's master
> branch, the only commits that need to be re-signed after rebase are my
> own commits, so far seen only on my local repo. I've never needed to
> rebase others' commits, so their signatures are unaffected.
>
> Does that make sense?

It does!  I was referring to rebasing my own commits, indeed; currently
‘git rebase’ re-signs them, and I was just hoping this hadn’t changed,
and AIUI it hasn’t changed.

Thanks for clarifying!

Ludo’.