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Re:Unix History Repository by autoreleasepool on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:37AM (#10996224)
Here's the first "synthetic commit" from June 20, 1972

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/67174...

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Re:Unix History Repository by a_bonobo on Friday January 29, 2016 @11:40AM (#10996242)
The accompanying publication explains it more: http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/pubs/conf/2015-MSR-Unix-History/...

>Curating and processing available snapshots as well as old and modern configuration management repositories allows the reconstruction of a new synthetic Git repository that combines under a single roof most of the available data

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Re:Unix History Repository by bitcointicker on Friday January 29, 2016 @01:58PM (#10997557)
Last page starts here:

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/mast...

Fascinating!

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