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authorNicholas Johnson <nick@nicholasjohnson.ch>2023-06-15 00:00:00 +0000
committerNicholas Johnson <nick@nicholasjohnson.ch>2023-06-15 00:00:00 +0000
commit384d19226f7539bc1e6dc18e8d218db6a381969a048b5027d7b1b584286241b5 (patch)
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="2000-01-01 00:00:00+0000"
export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="2000-01-01 00:00:00+0000"
```
-If it's desirable to retain only the day on which a commit was made, set both the `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` like so:
+To retain only the day on which a commit was made, set both the `GIT_AUTHOR_DATE` and `GIT_COMMITTER_DATE` like so:
```sh
export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(date +%Y-%m-%d) 00:00:00+0000"
@@ -39,12 +39,11 @@ Environment variables don't change after being set. So the dates update when a n
### 🔑 Removing Timestamps for Digital Signatures 🔑
-It's important to digitally sign Git commits and especially releases to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. GPG signatures contain their own timestamps which can be just as bad for privacy as Git timestamps.
-
-Luckily, GPG signature timestamps can also be forged with the option: `--faked-system-time <iso>`. For this to be persistent, Git needs to run a version of GPG that *always* forges the system time. Also, the script should exclude GPG version information since that could also leak time information:
+GPG signatures contain their own timestamps which can be just as revealing as Git timestamps. Luckily, GPG signature timestamps can also be forged with the option: `--faked-system-time <iso>`. For this to be persistent, Git needs to run a version of GPG that *always* forges the system time. Also, the script should exclude GPG version information since that could also leak time information:
```sh
#!/bin/sh
+# file: /usr/bin/gpg2-git
gpg2 --faked-system-time <iso>! --no-emit-version --no-comments $@
```