D Github contributors - enable 2 factor authentification

sldkf via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 11 12:49:53 PDT 2016


On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 18:50:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 06:36:11PM +0000, sldkf via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 13:35:08 UTC, qznc wrote:
>> > The code is pretty safe thanks to git. The comments get lost.
>> 
>> Somone can rewrite the entire history (i.e patch the commiters 
>> mails).
>> This would be a major problem.
>
> This is not a problem. Rewritten history will have different 
> commit hashes, and once a trusted copy of the repo is uploaded, 
> e.g., from Walter's local copy, it will become very obvious 
> which commits have been tampered with. In fact, just replace 
> the repo with Walter's (or some other trusted person's) 
> version, and the tampered commits can be simply discarded.
>
>
> T

Not wrong, one aspect of git is that there's no "central" 
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