FYI: a secure Monticello?

Phil Hargett hargettp at mindspring.com
Thu Nov 6 12:21:06 UTC 2003


<red-faced grin>

Here's the link: http://www.venge.net/monotone/

On Nov 6, 2003, at 7:20 AM, Phil Hargett wrote:

> In the interest of sharing ideas about source code control and 
> versioning systems, have y'all seen this recent update on freshmeat 
> for a package called Monotone?
>
> It bills itself as a secure, distributed version control system.  It 
> resembles Monticello in that any repository can sync with any other 
> repository, and each package in a repository knows it's version 
> history with other repositories.  It adds further functionality like 
> delta merging within files and source trees, secure hashing (with 
> SHA1) of source trees and file contents to ensure package integrity, 
> and the use of certificates with RSA encryption to authenticate 
> authors of changes.
>
> Although today we get buy just fine without being overly concerned 
> with security in our sharing of source, someday that might not be the 
> case.  Anyway, interesting stuff. :)
>
>




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