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146 pointskvprashant32 comments

With over 100 votes I was hoping I was about to get some helpful advice on contributing to open-source projects. I don't know what I was thinking.

Indeed, facepalm is all there is to do...

I was thinking the same.

Another pretty good one: https://github.com/will

Via http://bd808.com/blog/2013/04/17/hacking-github-contribution...

Pushed 1,504 commits to will/githubprofilechea

Pushed 1,848 commits to will/githubprofilecheat2

The mushroom is getting eaten!

It's a cool idea, although those were not "real" contributions:

https://github.com/Androguide/gitfity/commits?author=Androgu...

I imagine someone making significant commits to some big open source projects and after a few months say "oh by the way I spelled 'hello' on my github page". Badass.

It doesn't take a few months, you can just change the date on your computer when you commit. There is a script somewhere that will fill your activity with Nintendo characters.

Ah, I didn't know it trusted the time recorded in the commit. It's less impressive then, doesn't take as much dedication as I thought.

I've always assumed it's pulling the dates from the commits, not from a separate log of git pushes. And of course those can and should have whatever date they were committed in hem.

Creating an issue also counts as a "contribution."

The poster you replied to is saying that the "contributions" were created solely for the purpose of making a pretty contribution graph; they're not actually legitimate (code, issue, etc.) contributions to an actual project.

https://github.com/turkishdelighthorse

A penis, 25 contributions long, in the process of ejaculating its second spermatozoon (!)

You should probably tag this as NSFW.

NSFW

I don't get it. Is it about the pull shown at the bottom? https://github.com/evilsocket/dsploit/pull/291

It's the "Public Contributions" graph that is being talked about.

The title is slightly misleading.

Nah, it's "pixel art" in the contributions graph ("Public Contributions" below the repo lists)

No, it's about the "Public Contributions" section where there are a bunch of green squares showing contributions over time. In this case, they spell out the word "hello", and there's part of a mushroom from Mario at the start as well.

Add a commit for yesterday (I just picked whatever arbitrary time):

   git commit -a -m "Insightful Commit Note" --date "2013-09-25 08:24:32"

Might also be worth mentioning the [difference between commit date and author date][1]

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11857467/114359

It's actually slightly annoying that Github sorts the commits by commit date instead of the author date. When you rebase your branch a few times to clean up the history, you may end up with a PR commit overview that does not chronologically reflect what happened during development.

Makes PR reviews a bit confusing at times.

This should be ‘The proper way to contribute on Github’ instead of ‘The proper way to pull on Github’.

Update: the title has been updated.

This one's based on the Github tshirt: https://github.com/contrigraph

See http://kivikakk.ee/2013/05/07/contrigraph.html

https://github.com/githubinvasion

Shit. I thought I was frist with the idea ... but turns out I was a month later with https://github.com/sne11ius/github-screen D:

At least can generate these from .png files.

Edit: Sorry about the misleading title. I just referred to a tweet and put this up here. Changed the title now. Also, there are some dummy contributions, like line edits and delete. But check out some cooler links with actual contributions and fun Github graph art.

A script for doing this was posted to HN several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740959

Or this https://github.com/gelstudios

This is oblivious a coincidence. I hope no one here would think with their right mind that there was any kind of intelligence behind that. It must have happened by chance.

It's not a coincidence. Actually it's a lot simpler than coincidence.

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti.

https://github.com/Androguide/gitfity/commits?author=Androgu...

Also look at the commits made, it actually just adds a bunch of new lines in a file and deletes it.

Obvious ID troll is obvious.

More like "obvious current twitter drama troll"

Crap. Upvotes fo not bookmark things for me and ...etcetc..please ignore this comment. Desperate bookmarking technique.

Laters guise.

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