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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc b/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc index 43bbb4f63c..297b57bb2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-export.adoc @@ -50,6 +50,23 @@ resulting tag will have an invalid signature. is the same as how earlier versions of this command without this option behaved. + +When exported, a signature starts with: ++ +gpgsig <git-hash-algo> <signature-format> ++ +where <git-hash-algo> is the Git object hash so either "sha1" or +"sha256", and <signature-format> is the signature type, so "openpgp", +"x509", "ssh" or "unknown". ++ +For example, an OpenPGP signature on a SHA-1 commit starts with +`gpgsig sha1 openpgp`, while an SSH signature on a SHA-256 commit +starts with `gpgsig sha256 ssh`. ++ +While all the signatures of a commit are exported, an importer may +choose to accept only some of them. For example +linkgit:git-fast-import[1] currently stores at most one signature per +Git hash algorithm in each commit. ++ NOTE: This is highly experimental and the format of the data stream may change in the future without compatibility guarantees. |