This is the first ever commit of GitHub.

[sunn-e]

This is the first ever commit of GitHub.

[donno2048]

Exactly how I got here too.

This is a bit weird since according to Wikipedia, GitHub was Founded on February 8, 2008, and the Development of the GitHub platform began on October 19, 2007, but the date of the commit is October 10, 2007.

It is possible that the git history has been modified, but I guess the information on Wikipedia is just wrong (that's assuming this commit is actually the first commit on GitHub and not just an early commit on git (which is completely different) pushed to GitHub which is very likely)

Edit: Ok, in the API address of this repo (https://api.github.com/repos/mojombo/grit) the created_at is 2007-10-29T14:37:16Z, so I guess this is really the first repo on GitHub and the date wasn't resulting by importing from git...

[toydotgame]

@donno2048, it is most likely just old Git history being pushed to GitHub.
angular/angular.js has two commits from December 31st, 1969 (866346e and eaa397c). They're made by just setting your system time to something, running git commit, then setting it back to the present (to get HTTPS to work with Git), and pushing.
Most likely, this repo had commits, and they were pushed to this GitHub Git server after GitHub [and this repo] were created.

The real first commit on GitHub will be much harder to find...

[donno2048]

@toydotgame Even if the git history was pushed to GitHub from Git it doesn't explain the created_at date of this repo which is 2007-10-29T14:37:16Z which is four months before GitHub was founded on February 8, 2008.

[sunn-e]

You are right, I talked to the author of that repo and they said the same thing. The git is different than github so previously the author used a different platform so the date comes from there.