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Show HN: First Commit – find out the first commit of GitHub projects

• request345 11y ago
  why is this useful?
  • univerio 11y ago
    To gauge the age of the repo, perhaps?
    • hellofunk 11y ago
      Still easy to see on Github itself.
  • dmihal 11y ago
    It's interesting to see the humble beginnings of some popular projects.
• olalonde 11y ago
  This one's been posted a couple of times on HN but deservedly so: https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290 https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...
• bdcravens 11y ago
  Why is the full repo URL needed? Why not just rails/rails?