December 2009
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Using GPG to Sign Git Tags
Lately, I’ve been working in Git for version control and one of the more interesting features is the ability to sign source code tags. Git is a distributed repository system and consequently, it is impossible to know if a given copy of the repository is official in any sense of the work. Cryptographic signatures alleviates this problem and Git uses GPG to do it.
First, is is necessary to...