Proving ownership of code with mercurial?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

You cannot prove code ownership, even if you had PGP signed it or
whatever. You could still have originally taken it from somewhere else
and just checked it in / signed it as yours. For example, you could
have stolen it from someone who subsequently died without leaving any
trace of her original work except the copy in your hands. How do you
prove the code is yours, how do they prove it isn't?
-peter

On Jan 1, 2008 10:43 PM, Francesc Esplugas <francesc.esplugas at gmail.com> 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.
>
> Is there any document out there that talk about how Mercurial manages
> data and how to prove trust of each commit made?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Francesc
>
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> name. Francesc Esplugas i Martí
> voice. +34 678.681.603
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