On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 14:12 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > The patch files are in git as text files, right? Why would you need > checksums of those? That is the purpose of git, right? Checksums are there to make sure that you get what you are supposed to get. That is also true for text files. (A source tarball is just a bunch of text files in an archive.) Having checksums for all files (like in a SRPM) is a guarantee and saves the user the trouble to have to hand check them. So yes, checksums for patch files and spec files would be appreciated and useful. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research