A Multi-Month Study of Git Commit Signing
A multi-month empirical study finds git commit signing still suffers from usability barriers that keep adoption low—a supply-chain provenance gap relevant to CRA and NIS2 software integrity requirements.
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arXiv:2608.29283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Git commit signing, introduced in 2012, is one mechanism for establishing commit provenance in software supply chains, yet developer-controlled adoption remains rare and developers' experiences using it are understudied. To examine this experience, we conducted a three-month study with senior undergraduate and graduate computer science students (n = 22), whom we treat as proxies for junior developers. Participants configured commit signing indepen
Editorial Analysis
With the EU Cyber Resilience Act demanding demonstrable software supply-chain integrity, low commit-signing adoption leaves a provenance gap that auditors will increasingly scrutinise.
Mandate commit signing in CI/CD pipelines and evaluate modern alternatives like gitsign to reduce developer friction.
EU regulations increasingly require provable software provenance; low commit-signing adoption creates an audit exposure that tooling improvements can close.
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