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# Find The Initial Commit
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By definition, the initial commit in a repository has no parents. You can
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exploit that fact and use `rev-list` to find the initial commit; a commit
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with no parents.
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```bash
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$ git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD
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```
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The `rev-list` command lists all commits in reverse chronological order. By
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restricting them to those with at most 0 parents, you are only going to get
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root commits. Generally, a repository will only have a single root commit,
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but it is possible for there to be more than one.
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See `man git-rev-list` for more details.
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[source](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5188914/how-to-show-first-commit-by-git-log)
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