<story><title>Go&apos;s first commit</title><url>https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7d5efb5e90695a8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigstumpy</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get it. According to the github history there was a hello world commit in 1972, conversion to C in 1974, conversion to ansi-c in 1988, then the next commit was the first go specification in 2008.&lt;p&gt;Git was written in 2005.&lt;p&gt;What did these hello world commits have to do with go? Why are they in the git history?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheDong</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a joke.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a joke basically saying &amp;quot;First, there was B, and it looked like this. Then, there was C, and it looked like this. Finally, there was Go, a new evolution of our work&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The git dates were clearly faked and created entirely for the purpose of this joke.&lt;p&gt;If you wanna know how to edit dates, this blog does a slightly better job than the `git-commit` man page: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alexpeattie.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;working-with-dates-in-git#change-history-amending-and-editing-dates&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;alexpeattie.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;working-with-dates-in-git#chang...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Go&apos;s first commit</title><url>https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7d5efb5e90695a8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bigstumpy</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get it. According to the github history there was a hello world commit in 1972, conversion to C in 1974, conversion to ansi-c in 1988, then the next commit was the first go specification in 2008.&lt;p&gt;Git was written in 2005.&lt;p&gt;What did these hello world commits have to do with go? Why are they in the git history?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>christophersu</author><text>&amp;gt; According to the github history there was a hello world commit in 1972&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Git was written in 2005.&lt;p&gt;Not sure about this specific case, but it isn&amp;#x27;t uncommon to migrate from another version control system (e.g. Subversion) to Git while maintaining the past history.</text></comment>