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"Initial Commit", 9 years ago (transfered an at-the-time 15 year old SVN repo)

sigh..

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FWIW, when I ported SVN repos at work, I converted the commit history as well.

we hired contractors to move us from source gear to git and they said "moving the history would be too hard, so we didn't"

lost probably 10+ years of history

facepalm

Renaming the company is also fun when its name is used for folders / package paths. The history isn't lost, just unusable.

There are a million files in the Meta monorepo starting with FB. I don't think they even changed the practice.

You see, the “fb” in fbcode stands for “fierce & beautiful”.

“Fast Breaking”

yeah... wasn't me that did it though. Same group of people did it with a git repository they "recreated" more recently. They just don't know how to software.

I got my hands on the old SVN but it's a few TBs and so I had some trouble unzipping it. Maybe someday I'll patch a branch for blame archeology.

Sigh indeed... at a previous job there was a project that was a port of an Algol project that began in 1992. I have no idea what version control systems were used in its history (wouldn't be surprised if it started with no version control) but the last version control migration was from Team Foundation Service to GitHub and of course it was just a single commit of the then current master. 23 years of history gone.

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