How to find the created date of a repository project on GitHub?

Question

How can I find the created date of a project on GitHub?

Basically, I have to find the first commit to see the created date, however, some projects have 500 commits, whi

Answer 1

@nulltoken's answer is very useful. To make it even more convenient, I decided to create a chrome extension for displaying a date of creation of a repository.

Highlights

• Beautiful calendar icon in the summary bar on a repository page
• Customizable date format followed Moment format pattern
• Best performance by storing all fetched URIs in the Storage

Date of creation of a repository is displaying on the summary bar:

Date format is customizable by clicking at the extension icon:

This's working really well for me. I hope it's useful for you as well.