That is simply not true. Sighs, dude ... stop this. I've got READMEs going back from then, dated back in 2010, if that is not enough here is a a ticket from 2009: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/savannah-hackers/2009-07/msg00042.html
> git.gnu.org always pointed to git.sv.gnu.org. > > There is nothing "undocumented" about it. Where is it documented? FSF sysadmins.