He meant you should mention your bias in the comments on HN, naturally you’re going to think you’re right (and they will think they’re right). It was my understanding that the commit history wasn’t originally saved - maybe this was wrong, did you have the commit history immediately after copying the code base? The main issue is then replacing it in open source software where the other version exists without due cause.

Should we copy your code, attribute it to you in a readme, and slightly optimize some of your code to replace your efforts everywhere?