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Here's the Git log on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/twitter/vireo/commits/master https://github.com/twitter/vireo/commits/master . As of this writing, it

Here's the Git log on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/twitter/vireo/commits/master https://github.com/twitter/vireo/commits/master . As of this writing, it consists of a single commit with the commit message "first commit." I'll give the devs here the benefit of the doubt that the original project repo has more history than that, but what might be the reason it wasn't preserved when the GitHub repo was created? Copyright reasons? Or someone just couldn't be bothered?

cbalyc 9y ago
The project is relatively mature at Twitter and has indeed a much longer commit history. Per our internal policies, the repo had to be cleaned before we could release it to public, and thus we erased the history before putting it on github. An exciting fresh new page in the project history.
- Cyberdog 9y ago
  Okay, I figured this was probably a policy thing, but why? Not trying to be critical here. Just curious.
  - cbalyc 9y ago
    It's mostly related to properly complying with OSS licenses of other projects and we also had some pieces of code that were for Twitter specific use cases.
  - arbie 9y ago
    Commit messages are often leaky about IP and internal processes/personnel.