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I'm curious to hear what the Lemmy programming community thinks of this!

The author argues against signing Git commits, stating that it adds unnecessary complexity to systems.
The author believes that signing commits perpetuates an engineering culture of blindly adopting complex tools.
The consequences of signing Git commits are likely to be subtle and not as dramatic as some may believe.

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[-] Mikina@programming.dev 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

For anyone wondering - why would I need it? I'm already signed in to github, the commit is commited using my ssh-key, Github knows it's me. Why would I need another verification?

Here's why. https://dev.to/martiliones/how-i-got-linus-torvalds-in-my-contributors-on-github-3k4g . If someone commits with your email (or github noreply email, which is public), it will get attributed to you. I was just trying it with colleauges account, and so far I haven't found any way how to tell that it really wasn't him.

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