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submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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I'm curious to hear what the Lemmy programming community thinks of this!

  • The author argues against signing Git commits, stating that it adds unnecessary complexity to systems.
  • The author believes that signing commits perpetuates an engineering culture of blindly adopting complex tools.
  • The consequences of signing Git commits are likely to be subtle and not as dramatic as some may believe.

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[โ€“] mattd@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Anyone can slap your name and email on a commit and pretend you wrote it

[โ€“] MajorHavoc@programming.dev -2 points 9 months ago

On GitHub, the account that pushed the commit is already fairly evident.

Commits pushed from my GitHub account are differentiated from commits that are not.

I don't want huge centralized Git infrastructure, but while we have it, signed commits are less compelling.

And I'm not saying I love the current state of code authorship verification, either.