> "git cat-file -p $sha" is as close as you can get to commit objects
> without needing to write your own decompressing wrapper.  But it gives
> the same results.

Now, does the "signed data" also contain the parent sha?

If yes, our discussion about rebasing is moot, because a rebase will in every 
case destroy previous signatures.

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
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