I have no experience with perforce so I cannot directly compare it to git. Some of the things you ask for can be done with git. As eru mentioned, you can sign a

I have no experience with perforce so I cannot directly compare it to git. Some of the things you ask for can be done with git. As eru mentioned, you can sign a commit (and therefore all history leading to that commit), which will prevent anyone else from modifying its history undetected. With abundant signing and tagging, you could probably create a thorough audit trail. Git by itself does not have granular access control, and relies on filesystem permissions for security. The most common tool I know of to finely control write access to git (other than GitHub) is gitolite[0]. But even gitolite only provides read access control at the repository level. [0] What is gitolite? http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html#what http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html#what