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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> Git 2.9.0 has been released [0].
>
> There is one notable change for us, commit 66948561 (commit-tree: do not
> pay attention to commit.gpgsign) [1].
>
> Apparently, it was never intended for the repo option commit.gpgSign to
> apply to low-level "plumbing" commit operations such as those invoked by
> `stash`, `rebase`, `filter-branch`, etc.
>
> So, `git stash` no longer invokes GPG.

Sounds reasonable; ‘git commit’ still honors ‘commit.gpgsign’, right?

> The commit text seems to imply that `git rebase` would no longer re-sign
> commits, but that's not the case from my tests.

OK.  It would be bad if ‘git rebase’ would silently discard signatures.
Thanks for paying attention to this!

Otherwise the updates LGTM!

Thank you,
Ludo’.