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Wow. I think one of the coolest things about this, is seeing a GitHub repo with some of the commits being from 12 years ago. Gives you an idea of how long PHP's

• brendano 15y ago
  Python - first commit, 22 years ago https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572eed9854e7e41997f17107c88f https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572e... (Current first page: https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=1179 https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=117... ) Perl - first commit, 24 years ago Amazing title: a "replacement" for awk and sed https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1 https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611... (Current first page: https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commits/ams/no-more-study?&page=1286 https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commits/ams/no-more-study?&#... ) Apparently the current Linux kernel repositories don't go back as far: http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996 http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996
  • zxy 15y ago
    I remember Linus saying they only keep the last 5 years of commits, because more isn't really necessary.
    • LawnGnome 15y ago
      I think it's very dependent on the project. There really are times in php-src when you want to be able to go back a fair way, since the last significant change to function's implementation may well have been 10 years ago in the early 4.x days (and Git is going to be a huge win for us there over Subversion). I wouldn't be surprised if it makes much less sense for the kernel, though.