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[v5,4/6] git-fast-export.txt: clarify why 'verbatim' may not be a good idea

Message ID 20250224142744.279643-5-christian.couder@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series fast-export, fast-import: add support for signed-commits | expand

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Christian Couder Feb. 24, 2025, 2:27 p.m. UTC 
From: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>

Signed-off-by: Luke Shumaker <lukeshu@datawire.io>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
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 Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc b/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc
index ab9a315fa9..1b19f17b78 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc
@@ -29,15 +29,19 @@  OPTIONS
 
 --signed-tags=(verbatim|warn-verbatim|warn-strip|strip|abort)::
 	Specify how to handle signed tags.  Since any transformation
-	after the export can change the tag names (which can also happen
-	when excluding revisions) the signatures will not match.
+	after the export (or during the export, such as excluding
+	revisions) can change the hashes being signed, the signatures
+	may become invalid.
 +
 When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die
 when encountering a signed tag.  With 'strip', the tags will silently
 be made unsigned, with 'warn-strip' they will be made unsigned but a
 warning will be displayed, with 'verbatim', they will be silently
 exported and with 'warn-verbatim' (or 'warn', a deprecated synonym),
-they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
+they will be exported, but you will see a warning.  'verbatim' and
+'warn-verbatim' should only be used if you know that no
+transformation affecting tags will be performed, or if you do not
+care that the resulting tag will have an invalid signature.
 
 --tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite)::
 	Specify how to handle tags whose tagged object is filtered out.