Official compiler

[BBasile via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 10:41:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 22:19 -0800, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
> […]
>> 
>> One thing I adore about github is it provides a legal audit 
>> trail of
>> where the
>> code came from. While that proves nothing about whether 
>> contributions
>> are stolen
>> or not, it provides a date stamp (like my registered copyright 
>> did),
>> and if
>> stolen code does make its way into the code base, it can be 
>> precisely
>> excised.
>> Github takes a great load off my mind.
> […]
>
> Has there been case law in the USA that gives a Git log 
> official status as a record of history? I haven't done a 
> detailed search here, but I am not aware of any case law in the 
> UK on this. Other jursidictions will have their own rules 
> obviously.

BTW Malicious people can cheat and commit in the past, according 
to

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

commitment date is not reliable.