Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:52:41 +0000
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 05:53:20PM -0800, 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.

Signed commits have no practicl effect on users of a repo.

-- Brooks

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