📅 Original date posted:2014-05-21
📝 Original message:On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Mark Friedenbach <mark at monetize.io> wrote:
> Honest question: what would signed commits do to help us here anyway?
> What's the problem being solved?
>
> Unfortunately git places signatures in the history itself, so it's not
> like we could use easily use signatures to indicate acceptance after
> code review, like we could if we were using monotone for example. Git
> just wasn't designed for a commit-signing workflow.
Just makes it easier to sort out things like your git account (or the
git site) being compromised and used to submit commits.