That is indeed the first commit that can be traced from master, but you can get to the older history by checking the log of older tags. For example: "git log XWIKI_1_0_0" shows commits starting with 2005-04-15, when you did another directory reorganization, while "git log XWIKI_0_1_10" goes back to 2003-12-15, a commit named "Initial revision" (yay!).
The problem is that things kept changing in SVN, from /trunk to /trunk/xwiki to /xwiki/trunk and then to /xwiki-platform/trunk, and while git can detect most SVN renames, I guess this kind of transitions really confused the migration process. On 01/09/2017 11:33 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > I was trying to find the oldest commit and couldn’t. Maybe we made a mistake > while moving from CVS to SVN and then from SVN to Git at some point? > > On xwiki-platform, running “git log —reverse” gives me as the oldest: > > " > commit fd92841151ac9d81da39babdb82516dbb7e4add7 > Author: vmassol <vinc...@massol.net> > Date: Fri Oct 13 13:57:10 2006 +0000 > > XWIKI-12: Reorganize directory structure to match Maven2 best practices > and cleanup build > > * Started creating the core/ module and added the first version of a m2 > build. > * Please note that that the m2 is NOT working at this time as more work > needs to be done to sort out the dependencies. > * I'm committing this to show to everyone the path I'm taking, to gather > comments and possibly help too... :-) > > git-svn-id: https://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xwiki/trunk/core@1387 > f329d543-caf0-0310-9063-dda96c69346f > “ > > But this is definitely not the oldest. There are commits from Ludo in 2003. > We used to be able to see them in svnsearch but that service has been > decommissioned. On > https://web.archive.org/web/20130625112738/http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/XWIKI/search > we can still see that there were 7 commits in Dec 2003 for example. > > So my guess right now is that we lost history at some point. Is that so? > > Thanks > -Vincent > -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
