From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:54:11 GMT Subject: Re: Trivia: When did git self-host? Message-ID: 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 AuthorDate: Thu Mar 13 12:53:56 2003 -0700 Commit: Linus Torvalds 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