I'm looking for a distributed VC system where even remote clients with
full(?) write access cannot, or at least would find it fairly difficult
to, alter history?
AFAIK:
rcs - trivial to change the past (also not distributed, and NFS is
undesirable).
cvs - reasonably easy to change the past, usually.
svn - definitely possible (AFAIK) to change the past.
bzr - unknown
hg - unknown
git - unknown
everything else - unknown.
For this application, a file-oriented system would be preferred over a
snapshot-oriented system like git.
I'm trying to combine (soft) WORM-like properties with the benefits of a
version control system. Does not need to be utterly secure, merely
needs to be "good enough" to deter both script-kiddie level attackers
and inebriated sysadmins.
CVS would be ideal except that access control is AFAIK basically ternary
(none,read,write).
Should ideally be in packages or ports, obviously. We have a bunch of
version control systems in ports that I've never even heard of before!
Suggestions on which one I should learn how to configure?
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-Adam Thompson
athom...@athompso.net
