Proving ownership of code with mercurial?

Mark A. Flacy mflacy at verizon.net
Tue Jan 1 18:25:09 CST 2008


On 2008.01.01 15:43, Francesc Esplugas wrote:
> 
> I've been working on a project for 3 months and now I've to prove
> somehow the ownership of all the code I've done.
> 
> All the code has been managed with Mercurial, so I can list the logs
> and diff's to show all my work but I want to explain somehow to the
> company that this code "is originally created by me". I understand
> that each time I make a commit to Mercurial this code gets signed but
> the company can say that I modified the repos an replaced all the
> commit authors with my name.

Ask them to produce a clone of the repository that indicates that you've  
done that.  Don't they need proof that you're lying prior to making the  
accusation?



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Mark A. Flacy



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