Proving ownership of code with mercurial?

[Fred Wulff]

What exactly do you mean by "nobody hacked it"? What's the attack that
you're envisioning and trying to prove didn't happen?

-Fred

On Jan 2, 2008 1:59 AM, Francesc Esplugas <francesc.esplugas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to prove all the work I've done. I understand some of my code
> can be a copy and paste from other projects or other developers, but
> the idea is to prove I've been working on the project.
>
> Proving the integrity (hg verify) of the repository, could prove
> nobody hacked it?
>
> Francesc
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> name. Francesc Esplugas i Martí
> >> voice. +34 678.681.603
> >>
> >>
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>
> --
> name. Francesc Esplugas i Martí
> voice. +34 678.681.603
>
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