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Pay08today at 11:31 AM1 replyview on HN

I've never heard of git commits being used in a legal case, do you have any examples?


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tuetuopaytoday at 1:49 PM

I don't know if it's been tested in court, but that's the rationale behind the Signed-off-by lines the kernel requires in all patches sent. It's a way to tell the (legal) ownership of a piece of code.