I thought it was interesting that nobody looks at the first commit and even asks if it makes any sense at all… Not that I could imagine a massive project like this, but I wonder how much stuff was left out.

Kind of sad how opensoftware quickly loses it’s history.

alright it is working now, thanks.
and their git is converted from svn and earliest rev dated in 1988-11-23 vs earliest change in ChangeLog dated 1988-01-09 (gnu c 1.17), so either older changes are not in RCS or they get lost between VCS changes/migration.
but still not the earliest as gnu c 0.9 dated 1987-03-22.

I guess I got myself ddosed. I restarted the instance and it’s up.