Spike is an awesome package manager, that uses git. Because it uses git anypony can simply setup their own repositories, and every user will have local copies of the repositories in case the upstream gets corrupted or is offline. Additionally users can go back in time in the package installations and package repositories, and local changes can be done to the repositories that will be preserved even when that part of the repository is updated. Spike inheritally has integrity control, this however does not mean that a packages does not need signing, but git does support GPG-signing and verification [Git 1.8.2-rc4]. Spike is designed to be minimal to reduce the risk of bugs, while supporting installation to another OS installation, have nice package organisation, package patches, as well as being secure. Spikes security features includes secure removal of files, using the program shred (opt-in, shredding takes time), and uses git for integrity with GPG-signatures checked by git for trust. Spike supports state archiving so system administrators can make one installation and deploy it on multiple computers, as well as providing a simple way to roll back incase a system update breaks the system.