Thanks to all respondents - an interesting discussion. I think I'm now equipped to respond to upstream.
Bob On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 at 08:15, Björn Persson <Bjorn@rombobjörn.se> wrote: > Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 29/11/2022 17:33, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > One of reasons being that it's (at least slightly) easier to > > > notice a change to the public key / keyring when it's in > > > dist-git versus the lookaside cache > > > > It depends on public key format. Armored (ASCII format) vs. binary keys. > > > > Storing binaries in Git is a bad idea. > > Why is that? Does 8-bit data break Git somehow? > > A key is a small file. It doesn't bloat the repository like a tarball > would. When a key needs replacing, the new key is entirely different > whether it's ASCII-armored or not, so there's nothing to gain by > storing a diff instead of the whole file. > > ASCII-armor is for sending messages over old 7-bit protocols, just like > Base64 and UUencoding. In 8-bit-clean channels ASCII-armor doesn't > accomplish anything other than making the message slightly larger. I > can't believe that Git wouldn't be 8-bit-clean. > > Björn Persson > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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