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Re: Official git repository history?

From
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Jun 30, 2009, 23:06 UTC
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<alpine.LNX.2.00.0906301842430.2147@iabervon.org>
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On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I cloned the official git repository and for fun I checkout
> out the first ever commit "e83c5163316f..."
> 
> 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?  Or did he use another revision control
> system and then later imported that history into the official git
> repository (when git was working)?
> 
> Just curious?  :-)

Take a look at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/9 and the earliest commits in the git.git repository; the directory he mentions had a non-bare repository hosting the commits up to that point, which would have been e497ea2a9b6c378f01d092c210af20cbee762475.

	-Daniel
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  2. Junio C HamanoJun 30, 2009
  3. Graeme GeldenhuysJun 30, 2009
  4. Andreas EricssonJun 30, 2009
  5. Graeme GeldenhuysJun 30, 2009
  6. Linus TorvaldsJun 30, 2009
  7. Graeme GeldenhuysJul 1, 2009
  8. Daniel BarkalowJun 30, 2009

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