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How to hack your Git history to look active

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A brief looks in the git history of a repo, or of the user will betray this scam because it's too transparent. Counting productivity by commits is silly.

Here is my current git commit history: https://imgur.com/a/Hl1rkPp

It doesn't mean much if you don't account for what I was doing.

Nice, but I think it would look suspicios if there was no gaps.

I just imagine how this cold be extended with auto generated commit messages with common form and picking from customizable word lists =)

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