Here's a bit of trivia, the first version of XWiki had less than 6MB (uncompressed and including its libraries).
On 01/10/2017 03:17 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > 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/
