Re: Question about scm security holes

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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:00 PM, John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5 March 2010 02:03, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> modified code would be a little more interesting.  git makes this sort
>> of thing pretty much impossible to do without it being *noticeable* at
>> least.  Traceable, not so much, because you can create a commit with
>> whatever committer/author names you want and then push them in.
>
> Which is why you simply record the username of whoever pushed them in.
>  This is what gitorious.org does etc.

Not bad, but it's still very hard to trace properly.  Imagine I pull
from a peer, then push my combined branch into the central repo.
It'll say I'm pushing in patches from me *and* my friend.  Did I forge
them or are they real?

Avery
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