Context. I was replying to this comment claiming it was “probably” using VCS.

It was probably initially developed using a different VCS (e.g., svn), and when git became feature-complete that “svn” history was imported into git.

I thought explaining it was only a tiny project at that point would be enough.

It took about a day to get to be “self-hosting” so that I could start committing things into git using git itself, so the first day or so is hidden, but everything else is there.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds

That first commit is only ~1000loc and reads and writes commits. It was almost certainly not using version control first.

One of the big reasons there are so few boats passing is because they can’t get insurance. I agree with your sentiment though :)