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Re:Git 2.13 by lgas on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @02:30AM (#14306293)
What would be the benefit of signing content instead of hashes?
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Re:Git 2.13 by rurban on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @10:49AM (#14308619)
The benefit would be to trust the content, and not the hash of the content. Esp. with SHA1 being the only hash so far.
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