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Date:      Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:10:40 +0100
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 19.11.2012 14:34, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>
>> On 17/11/2012 22:48, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>>> (and is GPL btw)
>>
>>
>> Since we're discussing it, Mercurial is BSDL-ed, and apparently has
>> proper crypto signing using GPG:
>>
>>
>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FAQ#FAQ.2FTechnicalDetails.How_do_Mercurial_hashes_get_calculated.3F
>
>
> :%s/BSD/LGP/
>
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/about/

Even if it was BSD licensed, Mercurial has a huge dependency:
Python; and Git is Perl-based. So neither of them is ideal, IMHO.
If at all, we'd need a lean and mean distributed SCM program
like Mercurial or Git, but written in C that we could add to base.
Any volunteers?

-cpghost.

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