I dont think I've ever seen a commit that says "49 years ago". Damn.

RobotToaster · 2026-05-24T16:43:04

Not quite as old, but brl-cad is still in active development and has commits from 1983. https://github.com/BRL-CAD/brlcad/graphs/contributors?all=1

formerly_proven · 2026-05-24T08:54:51

zymhan · 2026-05-25T02:24:45

I was confused by the short commit history, and then I checked the branches.

I love that someone went to this effort.

pletnes · 2026-05-24T11:50:29

mapM · 2026-05-25T02:58:55

It's funny that the .gitignore is marked as being from 49 years ago ...

nextaccountic · 2026-05-25T06:09:28

Even the README here is (erroneously?) timestamped as 1978 https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502

Which is unlikely since it seems to be written by AI

chungy · 2026-05-25T10:05:23

Files in Git don't have timestamps, only commits do. It got swept up when `git commit --date=...` was run.

nextaccountic · 2026-05-25T11:07:12

oh I see. proper archeology would be to have more commits then