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chton·Dec 22, 2014

It's very comforting to see commit messages like https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commit/6359a0ae817ddda... and https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commit/911e5877bf2e9cc..., even from as far back as '86. Developers have occasionally felt stupid and unmotivated for a loooong time :)

In “Committed on 22 May 1981”

geofft·Dec 22, 2014

Yeah, but that's clearly after-the-fact. :) Here's the oldest commit in Discuss, the conferencing system written for Project Athena: https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commit/207670ad8bf752b... That's an actual commit in RCS from 1986, which got imported to CVS, which got imported to SVN, which got imported to git last year. The entire history is now on GitHub: https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commits/master The codebase is still in use and still developed, although (as you might be able to tell from the recent commits) it's kind of old code. I've got one commit in there replacing a printf(s) with a printf("%s", s).

In “Committed on 22 May 1981”