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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 r

by 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.