Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla

[John A Meinel]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:21 +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>
> > You can browse a "_darcs" directory of a small project here to obverse
> > the structure:
> >
> > http://mark.stosberg.com/darcs_hive/cgi-app/_darcs/
>
>
> The patches appear to be gzip compressed plain text files (dunno how it
> handles binary files), which already contain meta information (for
> example the comments). So I'd think adding a patch checksum that is
> signed would be trivial.
>
> johannes

See the comment by:
Juliusz Chroboczek <address@hidden>

It turns out that patches might be modified as part of applying them to 
your tree. (The whole idea of commutativity, etc for darcs.)

So patches aren't constant. Now, I wonder if they are constant after 
they are applied. (To apply a patch you might have to modify it, but 
don't after that.)

In that case, the patches could be signed, and then after they are 
applied, they are signed again by the new person.

A little bit of overhead, but still you could keep signatures on the 
patches.

I suppose you could also do something like include a signature history 
or something...

John
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