FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Sun Nov 18 14:16:03 UTC 2012


On 18 November 2012 09:09, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Integrity could be provided by storing some kind  of commit ( each, and
> additionally each 1000nd full) checksums (even for svn) somewhere on
> readonly format.

Google "Merkle Tree" for a method of verifying a log.


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Eitan Adler


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