The Go language's first commit (1972)
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The Go language's first commit (1972)
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Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)
#2How would that even work if git was released in 2005? Am I missing something?
Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)
#3How would that even work if git was released in 2005? Am I missing something?
It’s just a joke. When creating a commit, you can override the timestamp to whatever you want.
Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)
#4How would that even work if git was released in 2005? Am I missing something?
You can modify the git history to your liking. There are tools for that, like reposurgeon [1].
Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)
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Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)
#6How would that even work if git was released in 2005? Am I missing something?
A date is just a number in a file. You can create Git commits with any date you want.
Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)
#7How would that even work if git was released in 2005? Am I missing something?
A date is just a number in a file. You can create Git commits with any date you want.
For the sake of interest, not quite any date.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21787872/is-it-possible-...
e.g. this repo which represented the US constitution in a Git repository couldn't use the actual dates it wanted to. https://github.com/JesseKPhillips/USA-Constitution#who-made-...
Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)
#8How would that even work if git was released in 2005? Am I missing something?
It’s just a joke. When creating a commit, you can override the timestamp to whatever you want.
Reminds me of https://github.com/avinassh/rockstar
Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)
#9This was done as a joke.
Go was released.
Someone else claimed he owns the name "Go" for a programming language. As a proof his github "go language" creation and commit date was shown. This wasn't fake, was real.
Google surely won't give up for this reason. Few days later google extended their go commit to 1972. Preceding that author's date by a long shot.
Guess you can find the news coverage from that time if you search.
Re: The Go language's first commit (1972)
#10This was done as a joke. Go was released. Someone else claimed he owns the name "Go" for a programming language. As a proof his github "go language" creation and commit date was shown. This wasn't fake, was real. Google surely won't give up for this reason. Few days later google extended their go commit to 1972. Preceding that author's date by a long shot. Guess you can find the news coverage from that time if you se…
Well, it's half joke if you know Go's history, but the half serious part would make that commit also the first commit of C++ and Objective-C