Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderWell, while we're looking at FIRST POSTS, here's Mercurial's, self-hosting a month after git, and like git, also created to replace bitkeeper: http://selenic.com/hg/rev/0#l10.1 The revlog data structure from then is still around, slightly tweaked, but essentially unchanged in almost a decade.
Tridgwell's "reverse engineering" of BitKeeper is one of the funniest, and at the same time the saddest stories, I've read about software. http://lwn.net/Articles/132938 It's companies like BitKeeper, who think using a command line is "not allowed" that are the reason so much software sucks. The interface Tridgewell used was the only one I'd be interested in. It's something you could build on top of. You could add abstraction to your heart's content. As for git, it's not nearly as simple…
Wow. I was totally unaware that Linus initially programmed git. I'd argue that it's had nearly as much impact as Linux itself. How many lines of code have been cataloged with it over time? Pretty good track record for a stupid content tracker, ha
Very 2020s that the exploit was found by someone playing around trying to make Git commit NFTs: https://medium.com/quine/the-1st-commit-of-git-git-no-longer...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 519
- Total comments
- 196
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-17 | Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hellFirst breakout | Sevein | 120 | 67 |
| 2013-11-03 | Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell (2005) | calder | 9 | 1 |
| 2014-11-24 | Git's initial commitBest thread | olalonde | 351 | 121 |
| 2015-04-06 | 10 Years Since the Initial Commit of Git by Linus Torvalds | mattwritescode | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-11-08 | Git's Initial CommitHall induction | nbanmp | 1 | 1 |
| 2022-04-23 | TIL: GitHub doesn't attribute the first-ever Git commit to Torvalds | sarupbanskota | 10 | 2 |
| 2022-09-11 | Initial revision of “Git”, the information manager from hell | aggrrrh | 3 | 1 |
| 2023-05-03 | Initial revision of “Git”, the information manager from hell | fisheuler | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-09-09 | Initial revision of "Git", the information manager from hell | doodlesdev | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-04-07 | Git's initial commitLatest 20+ point return | mellonaut | 20 | 3 |