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by harrylepotter 1584 days ago
Hate to break it to you, but December 1991 was 30 years ago.
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sli 1584 days ago
That's the original date on the file, but the comment being discussed (and much of the code in that function, it seems) was from 17 years ago. See the git-blame:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blame/f4bc5bbb5fef3cf421ba...

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pfarrell 1584 days ago
See the text of the comment: "12/12/91". The `git blame` is likely due to not having imported the previous history as commits when the original import to the git repo happened. I worked at a company that moved from VSS to TFS for a ~10 year code base. It took months for the consultants to get the import to preserve the history. Too bad this didn't happen in this repo.

edit: Found this [0]

  Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it.

  Let it rip!
0: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1da177e4c3f41524e88...
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onedognight 1584 days ago
Linus was in the middle of designing git when he wrote this. I think we can cut him some slack.
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ajsfoux234 1584 days ago
That commit seems to include all the code written before 2005. The commit message notes that it doesn't bother including the full history.
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gowld 1584 days ago
The comment says 12/12/91
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quickthrower2 1584 days ago
Ha ha. Yeah Linus worked on Linux before Git unfortunately. Or fortunately maybe (because the world needed Linux before it needed git)
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mark-r 1584 days ago
Thanks for making me feel old.
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the_svd_doctor 1584 days ago
Yes but git-blame shows 17 years ago.
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quickthrower2 1584 days ago
Git was released 7 April 2005, I imagine it existed and was used before v1.0 release, so 17 years checks out. It is git's age, not the code.
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gryfft 1584 days ago
Yes, but some of the history has been omitted. [1] Line 1035 includes the signoff "-TYT, 12/1291"

1. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1da177e4c3f41524e88...

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