Is there an easy way to navigate to the earliest commit of a large open-source project in GitHub?
The project has over 13,000 commits as of today. I don't want to press the "Older" button on the commit history page hundreds and hundreds of times to get to the initial commit (or first commit).
There's no obvious UI to do this, but there is a way to construct the right URL to go to page one of the commit log.
Suppose we want to find the first commit of the dotnet/runtime repository. First take a note of the number of commits in the repository: it is currently 125,882. Now go to the list of commits (click on commit count), and click "Older" once. The URL will be something like this: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/commits/main?after=2aec3816f9bbc0eda3261daa335a05ea0df31b9c+34
Notice the +34 part. That's how many commits are skipped. Change that to 125,882 minus 1 minus 35 per page, that gives us this URL, which takes you right to the first page of the dotnet/runtime commit history.