Yes, gpg2 already uses the long format by default, but most
distributions seem to still have "gpg" be the older 1.x version due to
compatibility reasons. And older versions of gpg only show the 32-bit
short ID, which is quite insecure.
This doesn't actually matter for the _verification_ itself: if the
verification passes, the pgp signature is good. But if you don't
actually have the key yet, and want to fetch it, or you want to check
exactly which key was used for verification and want to check it, we
should specify the key with more precision.
In fact, we should preferentially specify the whole key fingerprint, but
gpg doesn't actually support that. Which is really quite sad.
Showing the "long" format improves things to at least show 64 bits of
the fingerprint. That's a lot better, even if it's not perfect.
This change the log format for "git log --show-signature" from
commit 2376d31787
merged tag 'v2.9.3'
gpg: Signature made Fri 12 Aug 2016 09:17:59 AM PDT using RSA key ID 96AFE6CB
gpg: Good signature from "Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>"
gpg: aka "Junio C Hamano <jch@google.com>"
gpg: aka "Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>"
Merge: 2807cd7b25e0c1ceafc5
Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri Aug 12 10:02:18 2016 -0700
to
commit 2376d31787
merged tag 'v2.9.3'
gpg: Signature made Fri 12 Aug 2016 09:17:59 AM PDT
gpg: using RSA key B0B5E88696AFE6CB
gpg: Good signature from "Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>"
gpg: aka "Junio C Hamano <jch@google.com>"
gpg: aka "Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com>"
Merge: 2807cd7b25e0c1ceafc5
Author: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri Aug 12 10:02:18 2016 -0700
(note the longer key ID, but also the reflowing of the text) and also
changes the format in the merge messages when merging a signed
tag.
If you already use gpg2 (either because it's installed by default, or
because you have set your gpg_program configuration to point to gpg2),
that already used the long format, you'll also see a change: it will now
have the same formatting as gpg 1.x, and the verification string looks
something like
gpg: Signature made Sun 24 Jul 2016 12:24:02 PM PDT
gpg: using RSA key 79BE3E4300411886
gpg: Good signature from "Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>" [ultimate]
where it used to be on one line:
gpg: Signature made Sun 24 Jul 2016 12:24:02 PM PDT using RSA key ID 79BE3E4300411886
gpg: Good signature from "Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>" [ultimate]
so there is certainly a chance this could break some automated scripting.
But the 32-bit key ID's really are broken. Also note that because of the
differences between gpg-1.x and gpg-2.x, hopefully any scripted key ID
parsing code (if such code exists) is already flexible enough to not care.
This was triggered by the fact that the "evil32" project keys ended up
leaking to the public key servers, so now there are 32-bit aliases for
just about every open source developer that you can easily get by
mistake if you use the 32-bit short ID format.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?"
detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows".
* kb/msys2-tty:
mingw: make isatty() recognize MSYS2's pseudo terminals (/dev/pty*)
A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
* tb/core-eol-fix:
convert.c: ident + core.autocrlf didn't work
t0027: test cases for combined attributes
convert: allow core.autocrlf=input and core.eol=crlf
t0027: make commit_chk_wrnNNO() reliable
Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization.
* ar/diff-args-osx-precompose:
diff: run arguments through precompose_argv
Correct faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit ." when
de-initialising all submodules, which would result in a strange
error message in a pathological corner case.
* sb/submodule-deinit-all:
submodule deinit: require '--all' instead of '.' for all submodules
"http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
* bn/http-cookiefile-config:
http: expand http.cookieFile as a path
Documentation: config: improve word ordering for http.cookieFile
Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running
our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
being tested intact.
* jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere:
test-lib: set BASH_XTRACEFD automatically
"git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did
not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to
penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been
updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which
is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
commit."
* js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref:
name-rev: include taggerdate in considering the best name
"git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as
potential error and warn.
* jc/fsck-nul-in-commit:
fsck: detect and warn a commit with embedded NUL
fsck_commit_buffer(): do not special case the last validation
Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose
shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher).
* jk/rebase-interative-eval-fix:
rebase--interactive: avoid empty list in shell for-loop
On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
customize this behaviour.
* js/windows-dotgit:
mingw: remove unnecessary definition
mingw: introduce the 'core.hideDotFiles' setting
Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
* kf/gpg-sig-verification-doc:
Documentation: clarify signature verification
Mark several messages for translation.
* va/i18n-misc-updates:
i18n: unpack-trees: avoid substituting only a verb in sentences
i18n: builtin/pull.c: split strings marked for translation
i18n: builtin/pull.c: mark placeholders for translation
i18n: git-parse-remote.sh: mark strings for translation
i18n: branch: move comment for translators
i18n: branch: unmark string for translation
i18n: builtin/rm.c: remove a comma ',' from string
i18n: unpack-trees: mark strings for translation
i18n: builtin/branch.c: mark option for translation
i18n: index-pack: use plural string instead of normal one
MSYS2 emulates pseudo terminals via named pipes, and isatty() returns 0
for such file descriptors. Therefore, some interactive functionality
(such as launching a pager, asking if a failed unlink should be repeated
etc.) doesn't work when run in a terminal emulator that uses MSYS2's
ptys (such as mintty).
However, MSYS2 uses special names for its pty pipes ('msys-*-pty*'),
which allows us to distinguish them from normal piped input / output.
On startup, check if stdin / stdout / stderr are connected to such pipes
using the NtQueryObject API from NTDll.dll. If the names match, adjust
the flags in MSVCRT's ioinfo structure accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Commit f2f0267 (archive-tar: use xsnprintf for trivial
formatting, 2015-09-24) converted cases of "sprintf" to
"xsnprintf", but accidentally left one as just "snprintf".
This meant that we could silently truncate the resulting
buffer instead of flagging an error.
In practice, this is impossible to achieve, as we are
formatting a ustar checksum, which can be at most 7
characters. But the point of xsnprintf is to document and
check for "should be impossible" conditions; this site was
just accidentally mis-converted during f2f0267.
Noticed-by: Paul Green <Paul.Green@stratus.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* sb/misc-cleanups:
submodule-config: don't shadow `cache`
config.c: drop local variable
credential-cache, send_request: close fd when done
bundle: don't leak an fd in case of early return
abbrev_sha1_in_line: don't leak memory
notes: don't leak memory in git_config_get_notes_strategy
Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part
of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in
gitweb.
* sk/gitweb-highlight-encoding:
gitweb: apply fallback encoding before highlight
Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from
its "lfs pointer" subcommand.
* ls/p4-lfs:
git-p4: fix Git LFS pointer parsing
travis-ci: express Linux/OS X dependency versions more clearly
travis-ci: update Git-LFS and P4 to the latest version
A question by "git send-email" to ask the identity of the sender
has been updated.
* jd/send-email-to-whom:
send-email: fix grammo in the prompt that asks e-mail recipients
