[pass] [PATCH] show age of password

[Steffen Vogel]

Hi :-)

>> You would also consider things such as renames.

If I remember correctly, Git does not keep track of renamed files across revisions (yet?)

There’s just a simple heuristic to detect renames which is based on the similarity of the files.
But maybe I’m wrong here. Are here some Git experts around?

I would simply rely on Git’s existing functionality (git blame).
This would allow us to keep the required code for password-store as small as possible.

And as I said, I assume that 'git blame' does not support renamed files yet.
But this might come as a new Git feature in the future.

By building this feature around ‚git blame‘ we could profit from this later on..

>> I think that this isn’t a great feature because it is easy to misunderstand it. If you actually
>> want the time the password itself was created you would need more
>> metadata, for example `pass generate` could add a "Generated At"
>> property.

As already pointed out: an additional tag must be kept in sync. We have a nice version control system which does exactly this for us :-)
Adding more stuff like tags, just adds complexity.
I like it the KISS style..

>> But I think that assuming that the last time a file was
>> updated is equal to the last time a password was changed is a poor idea.

It’s not the modification date of the file. We are talking about the modification date of the first line.

To add some related thoughts:

- is there a timestamp in the GPG metadata of the encrypted file?

- does Git keeps track of modification / access timestamps? (I don’t think so)

- because I’m also interested in the point in time where I used (decrypted) the password the last time.

Cheers,

Steffen

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