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The point is that removing some of the "bumped a Gemfile.lock" commits, you'd not have the streak you have:

https://github.com/sferik?tab=contributions&from=2014-02-18

You certainly work on tons of great open source stuff, and I don't want to diminish the value of that at all, but for somebody else to hold up your streak as a shining example of the commit-every-day mindset is a bit in the grey area, as far as I'm concerned.

Bollocks. Busy-work needs to be done, end of story.

Hell, nearly all my commits to FOSS are just that: the crappy busywork no-one wants to do. And a bug-fix here and there.

I've not seen anybody disagree with that. But running `bundle update && git commit -a && git push` falls into what I, for myself, consider a grey area on the "I've committed today" scale. I say this as someone who also tries to maintain a GitHub streak.

You, and sferik, and each other GitHub user is totally free to disagree. I don't own the streak system.

It's gotta be done and someone has to do it. Whether it counts as coding or not, it's still a process that someone has to focus on and take time out of their day to complete.

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