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The first commit in GitHub was made to the repository mojombo/grit on on February 8, 2008, by Tom Preston-Wheeler, a developer at GitHub. The commit message read: "initial commit of the github project". This small commit marked the beginning of a platform that would revolutionize the way developers collaborate and share code.