After bumping into a fun interview with Linus Torvalds on 20 years of git (https://youtu.be/sCr_gb8rdEI) I took a look at the first commit of git: https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290. Nice to see small beginnings for such a successful project.
Some of Torvald's commit logs are fun to read too (git log --reverse came in handy)
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