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What does it mean when base repositories of projects hosted on GitHub have commit history prior to project creation date on GitHub? Also, what does it mean when forks of a project have commit history prior to its creation date on GitHub?

Ayushi Rastogi
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  • just checked that it might be a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13321556/difference-between-git-and-github. Leaving my answer in case it doesn't get flagged. – bitoiu Jan 27 '15 at 16:24

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It simply means that the user that created that repository managed the repo before, outside of GitHub.

Imagine this as a document in Dropbox, you create it today in your computer, you upload it next week to Dropbox:

Date of creation: 27th Jan 2015
Data of file creation on Dropbox: 4th Feb 2015

This might seem tricky to you because you, if youare not distinguishing git and github. You can have a whole network of git repositories without GitHub.

GitHub provides visualization and great tooling on top of git repos.

bitoiu
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