Origins of the D Programming Language

[Neia Neutuladh]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:10:49 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/30/2018 3:55 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> Github is such an indispensable tool.
>> 
>> Lemme slightly correct you here: it is git that tracks this stuff and
>> distributes the history to several third parties who can corroborate
>> you.
>> 
>> Github, of course, helps coordinate with those other people, and their
>> brand name surely helps in recognition, but I don't wanna give it too
>> much credit because I do think it is important that we remember that it
>> can be replaced... and probably will replace them someday. (They would
>> have recently gone under if not bailed out by Microsoft!) Specific
>> companies come and go, but the underlying methodology outlives that.
> 
> I mentioned Github instead of just git because being a third party I
> think it would be very difficult to fake a Github provenance, while a
> git repository stored on your own disk would be fake-able.

Github seems to trust whatever you give it. For example:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/commits/master?
after=fe76eeee4e17cc4df8fb08016f55fbad7ffe723c+419

Those commits are from before Github existed.