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Re: Official git repository history?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 30, 2009, 07:46 UTC
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Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@gmail.com> writes:
> So how did Linus get those first few commits / history into the official
> git repository? Was the first 8 C source code files already enough to
> work as a basic git repository?
He did it very well, and Yes.

You would need to check out an old revision, say v0.99, and look at the original tutorial by Linus in Documentation/tutorial.txt. It was since rewritten into Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt but the original command sequence Linus used from the initial version of git was replaced with their more modern variants (e.g. Linus used "git-update-cache --add" but the updated tutorial talks about "git add" that did not exist nor Linus needed to have back then).

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