Questions tagged [git]

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system used for software development

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How can someone verify that the source downloaded from github is genuine?

When someone downloads the Monero source tree from github, there is a possible risk that this is not what the developers created. This could be MITM attacks, whether between developers and github or between github and the downloader. It could be…
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A SHA-1 collision has been found. Does that mean the Monero repositories on Github can be compromised?

Git (and thus Github) relies on the SHA-1 hash function to guarantee that files can't be secretly changed. Now a collision has been found: two different files that produce the same hash. The commercial cost to create one would be around 100 BTC at…
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Source code history "immutability"

I'm fairly new to git and it seems surprisingly easy to rewrite past commits. I'm aware of the signed commits, and if I understand it correctly, it prevents against unauthorized/untrusted write access, including a compromission of the github…
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installing Aeon on Ubuntu

I'm trying to install Aeon on ubuntu following this post. everything is fine until I try to use the "make" command. Then I keep getting an error for which I have no idea how to fix it: mkdir -p build/release cd build/release && cmake -D…
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Building Monero From Source on Windows 10 Pro

I am following the Windows Guide here to compile from Source: https://github.com/monero-project/monero When I enter the command: make release-static-win64 I get the following error: > spencer@aleph4 MINGW64 /c/Users/Spencer/Monero > # make…
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Tools to ease Monero source code pull request

After seeing this meta question I thought I would research the difficulty of submitting a pull request to replace mixin with ring size everywhere it is found in Monero source code. Although I believe I am capable of doing this manually, there are so…
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