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Python - first commit, 22 years ago

https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572e...

(Current first page: 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/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611...

(Current first page: 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

I remember Linus saying they only keep the last 5 years of commits, because more isn't really necessary.

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.

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