Re: Trivia: When did git self-host?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 00:02 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702270100360.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <3c6c07c20702261551u55ec2ea7mde4075b1c929cf87@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Mike Coleman wrote:

> Does anyone recall when git first self-hosted?  This doesn't seem to be 
> present on the GitHistory page on the wiki, and I'm not finding it 
> elsewhere.

Hey, how about adding a trivia page there, with the information you get here?

> I suppose this could mean different things, but roughly I'm curious 
> about the earliest point at which all further commits were 
> human-generated, in real time, as opposed to the machine-generated 
> commits of some robo-import script.

The initial commit was v0.99~954, and it was not yet generated with git-commit, because it was not there:

$ git show v0.99~954: tree v0.99~954:

Makefile README cache.h cat-file.c commit-tree.c init-db.c read-cache.c read-tree.c show-diff.c update-cache.c write-tree.c

Hth, Dscho