[autoreleasepool]

Here's the first "synthetic commit" from June 20, 1972

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/67174...

[a_bonobo]

The accompanying publication explains it more: http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/...

>Curating and processing available snapshots as well as old and modern configuration management repositories allows the reconstruction of a new synthetic Git repository that combines under a single roof most of the available data

[bitcointicker]

Last page starts here:

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/mast...

Fascinating!