On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > 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 *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html