Re: Trivia: When did git self-host?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 00:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702261650120.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <3c6c07c20702261551u55ec2ea7mde4075b1c929cf87@mail.gmail.com>

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.

The first commit was already self-hosted. It was done manually (write-tree etc by hand), but yes, the first commit really is:

	Thu Apr 7 15:13:13 2005 -0700

and the second one (add copyright notices) was done a few minutes later.

Later that same day I imported "sparse" into a git archive from BK (you can get the sparse archive, and see the initial commit:

	commit 3ece2ef7c0a3d5975f65aa09911e1944e4125c45
	Author:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
	AuthorDate: Thu Mar 13 12:53:56 2003 -0700
	Commit:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
	CommitDate: Thu Apr 7 20:59:14 2005 -0700

notice how the commit date is different from the author date - the author date was taken from the BK tree that I imported).

The third git commit is committing the changes to git to make that import possible ("Thu Apr 7 21:03:28 2005 -0700").

So git was self-hosting since April 7, 2005.

Now, exactly when I started git development (ie how long it took before it got to that self-hosting stage), I can't remember. I'd say about two weeks, probably.

		Linus