Re: Trivia: When did git self-host?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 01:58 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702261722310.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702261650120.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> 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.
> 
> 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.

Actually, it must have been less than that.

The first version of git was just ~1300 lines of code, and I have reason to believe that I started it at or around April 3rd. The reason: I made the last BK release on that day, and I also remember aiming for having something usable in two weeks.

And hosting git itself was not that important for me - hosting the kernel was. And the first kernel commit was April 16 (with the first merges being a few days later). Which meshes with my "two week goal" recollection.

Not that I'd normally be entirely sure I hit any time goals I set, but I *am* pretty sure that I decided that in order to be effective, I didn't want to do kernel development at the same time as git development, so the "April 3" date of the 2.6.12-rc2 release is fairly significant.

			Linus