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Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

He did it very well, and Yes.

You would need to check out an old revision, say v0.99, and look at the
original tutorial by Linus in Documentation/tutorial.txt.  It was since
rewritten into Documentation/gittutorial-2.txt but the original command
sequence Linus used from the initial version of git was replaced with
their more modern variants (e.g. Linus used "git-update-cache --add" but
the updated tutorial talks about "git add" that did not exist nor Linus
needed to have back then).