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How to identify the users?

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SYScott Yan <scottyan19@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 31, 2013, 05:52 UTC
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Hello everyone:

The user info of git client (user name and email) is set by the users themselves, so , how to avoid userA pretend to be userB?

Git server could authentication the user, but it do nothing about the user info of commit message.

For example: There are 20 people of my team, and everyone can push to the public repository(git server), If I found some backdoor code in my project, and the commit record shows it was committed by userA, so I ask userA: why do you do this? but he told me: no, this is not my code, I have never committed such thing. ----and yes, everyone could change his user info to userA very easily .

so... what should I do to avoid such situations? Thanks!

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