My first OSS commit turns 20 today - Antonio Cuni's blog

My first OSS commit turns 20 todaySome time ago I realized that it was 20 years since I started to contribute toOpen Source. It's easy to remember, because I started to work on PyPy as part of mymaster's thesis and I graduated in 2006.So, I did a bit of archeology to find the first commit:$ cd ~/pypy/pypy && git show 1a086d45d9 --no-patchcommit 1a086d45d9Author: Antonio Cuni <[email protected]>Date: Wed Mar 22 14:01:42 2006 +0000 Initial commit of the CLI backend!!! note "svn, hg, git"Funny thing, the original commit was not in `git`, which was just a few months oldat the time. In 2006 PyPy was using `subversion`, then a few years later [migratedto mercurial](/2010/12/14/pypy-migrates-to-mercurial/), and many years later[migrated to git](https://pypy.org/posts/2023/12/pypy-moved-to-git-github.html).I managed to find traces of the original `svn` commit in the archives of the[pypy-svn](https://marc.info/?l=pypy-svn&m=118495688023240) mailing list.