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But here he had something else in mind, what he meant is that my GitHub contribution graph looked very green

You even work on week-ends !

God forbid no, I have a life!

What actually happened is that I write a lot and wants all my rumblings to be safe at any point of time.

In practice I write in Obsidian, the best thing since slice bread for me. And it was obsidian-git, running every 10 minutes or so, who was keeping my GitHub vanity metrics very green.

Can I become a time traveler and do that one year ago ?

Yes, git has you covered

git add .
git commit --date "10 days ago" -m "Committed by a time traveler"

Can I do that fast as promised in the title ?

Yes, clone my repository

GitHub logo jmfayard / timetraveler

Create fake commits for every day last year

Time Traveler

From this

image

to this

image

FAST

👉🏻 How to improve your GitHub Vanity Metrics Fast

Commits for the last 360 days

Added fake commit Fake commited 360 days ago
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View on GitHub

Run the script run.sh

Create a new empty repository timetraveler on GitHub and push your new local repository there.

And in no time, you will have perfect GitHub vanity metrics just like me

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• Jan 29 '24

Regarding the time travel thing: I have this fun little script named git-timeshift that looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
DATE="1ドル"; shift 1
export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=$(date +%s -d "$DATE")
export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=$GIT_AUTHOR_DATE
git "$@"

So I can just type stuff like git timeshift "in 1 hour" commit and the commit (or whatever other command I run) will happen one hour in the future 🤭

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• Jan 29 '24

A whole new world of possibilities to confuse your colleagues, ah ah

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• Jan 29 '24

Pretty sure that's still far from the worst thing you can do with git if you really want to confuse people. Like, I've more than once re-ordered commit trees before merging branches to turn my erratic changes into a more coherent representation of what changes were made, and that inevitably leads to commits sometimes being completely out of chronological order :D

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• Jan 30 '24

Not cool; while the lessons the author wrote are pretty valuable, I advice against this fpr juniors.

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• Jan 30 '24

The article is tagged with #jokes

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• Jan 30 '24

May be worth mentioning/reminding people that this only looks good from an initial glance - if someone digs in, clicking through, it can make it obvious that there is only one repo that is there to serve up a commit history. Nonetheless, I have gotten many a compliment in interviews about it!

You can also scaffold out several projects in the language and framework of choice and create a fake history for each of them so that it looks like you're working on some cool things, but none of this will work if someone wants to dig in quickly to see what some of your commits may have actually looked like at some random point in time

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• Jan 30 '24

I feared that adding "this is a joke" would kill the joke.
I ended up putting "Vanity Metrics" in the title instead :)

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• Jan 31 '24 • Edited on Jan 31 • Edited

Thanks for the "advice".

I'll keep on doing it long form with legit, commented, repo pushes.

To each their own I guess.

Edit: k, yeah I see the "joke" tag now.

Carry on.

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• Jan 31 '24

No worry, I have a weird sense of humor.

I have done worse though
dev.to/jmfayard/why-real-developer...

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