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> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:02:37 +0200
> 
> commit ff9c6df4b0766bef72f6b1f4c8fca65737d9ad6b
> Author: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> Date:   Sat Dec 14 16:58:10 1985 +0000
> 
>     Initial revision
> 
> What puzzles me, is that there were so few commits when starting the
> project and 
> 
> Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> 
> redhat in 1985, really?
> 
> >From wikipedia:
> Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters 
> 
> This is not really a serious issue, but I wondered whether the
> conversion process worked reliable, at least for the first commits.

You are looking at a log that was significantly edited by the various
conversions, including the email addresses of the authors.  CVS stated
just the username, without any email address.