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by arey_abhishek 1020 days ago
Does anyone have the code from the first commit?
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Oh sweet - I added that link. Thank you!
Sure, it’s all in… git!

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=e83c51...

Here is a deeply paged link that will eventually not point to the first commits.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/log/?ofs=71000

heh, i browsed the tag history on github to see if i could track it down, but github gave me a 500 error on this link: https://github.com/git/git/releases/tag/v0.99
This answer explains how to edit the url to get to the oldest commit in Github

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28533602/how-to-navigate...

When did git become self-hosting?
git itself doesn't need to be hosted
I'm sure they meant when could git use itself for version control.