From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git archive setting user and group
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:39:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210122213954.7dlnnpngjoay3oia@chatter.i7.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cef51cd3-c6b5-ed24-f695-83be3a6743b4@web.de>
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:00:04PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:
> Adding support for using a custom user and group should be easy. Is
> this just a cosmetic thing? Regular users would ignore the user info in
> the archive, and root should not be used for extracting, and on systems
> that don't have a logwatch user this wouldn't make a difference anyway,
> right?
Right now, "git archive" operations are bit-for-bit identical across all
versions going back at least 8+ years. In fact, we've been relying on this to
support bundling tarball signatures with git tags themselves (via git notes).
E.g. you can see this in action here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tag/?h=v5.10.9
If you click on "(sig)", you will download a signature that can be used to
verify the tarball generated using "git archive".
I would argue that adding user/group support to "git archive" operation is
not really solving any problems other than "it's different from when I run it
as a regular user" -- and can introduce potential compatibility problems if
implemented.
So, I would selfishly vote not to implement this.
-K
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-22 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-22 20:40 git archive setting user and group Jason Pyeron
2021-01-22 21:00 ` René Scharfe
2021-01-22 21:13 ` Jason Pyeron
2021-01-22 21:39 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2021-01-22 22:02 ` Jason Pyeron
2021-01-22 22:28 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-01-23 1:05 ` brian m. carlson
2021-01-23 4:58 ` Jeff King
2021-01-23 5:16 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-01-23 5:11 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-01-22 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-22 22:51 ` Jason Pyeron
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2021-01-22 20:09 Jason Pyeron
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