Comment on Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphsComments−amelius8y it takes 100 commits to turn a gray square green on her contribution graphI wonder if people "game" the system here (since apparently it's an important metric). For example, you could split a commit in two ...−grenran8yHell you could even create backdated fake commits if you wanted to.https://github.com/tickelton/ghdecoyhttps://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti−angrygoat8yI had it pretty much solid green at one point, thanks to a hacky script that polled a website and committed & pushed the content as it changed. Wasn't even trying to game it, but it would be incredibly easy to do so.
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I wonder if people "game" the system here (since apparently it's an important metric). For example, you could split a commit in two ...
Hell you could even create backdated fake commits if you wanted to.
https://github.com/tickelton/ghdecoy
https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
I had it pretty much solid green at one point, thanks to a hacky script that polled a website and committed & pushed the content as it changed. Wasn't even trying to game it, but it would be incredibly easy to do so.