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From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Subject: Re: Official git repository history?
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:06:01 -0400 (EDT)
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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
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