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-rw-r--r--cgitrc.5.txt19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/cgitrc.5.txt b/cgitrc.5.txt
index 6b4efa2..34b351b 100644
--- a/cgitrc.5.txt
+++ b/cgitrc.5.txt
@@ -775,14 +775,25 @@ through use of git notes. For example, the following command may be used to
add a signature to a .tar.xz archive:
git notes --ref=refs/notes/signatures/tar.xz add -C "$(
- gpg --output - --armor --detach-sign cgit-1.1.tar.xz |
- git hash-object -w --stdin
+ gpg --output - --armor --detach-sign cgit-1.1.tar.xz |
+ git hash-object -w --stdin
)" v1.1
If it is instead desirable to attach a signature of the underlying .tar, this
will be linked, as a special case, beside a .tar.* link that does not have its
-own signature.
-
+own signature. For example, a signature of a tarball of the latest tag might
+be added with a similar command:
+
+ tag="$(git describe --abbrev=0)"
+ git notes --ref=refs/notes/signatures/tar add -C "$(
+ git archive --format tar --prefix "cgit-${tag#v}/" "$tag" |
+ gpg --output - --armor --detach-sign |
+ git hash-object -w --stdin
+ )" "$tag"
+
+Since git-archive(1) is expected to produce stable output between versions,
+this allows one to generate a long-term signature of the contents of a given
+tag.
EXAMPLE CGITRC FILE
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