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Re:Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me abo... by amelius on Friday June 08, 2018 @06:33AM (#17264109)
> it takes 100 commits to turn a gray square green on her contribution graph

I wonder if people "game" the system here (since apparently it's an important metric). For example, you could split a commit in two ...

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Re:Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me abo... by grenran on Friday June 08, 2018 @08:27AM (#17264621)
Hell you could even create backdated fake commits if you wanted to.

https://github.com/tickelton/ghdecoy

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

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Re:Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me abo... by angrygoat on Friday June 08, 2018 @06:58AM (#17264202)
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.
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