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Re:How to hack your Git history to look active by 100011_100001 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:36AM (#28692793)
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.

Re:How to hack your Git history to look active by shimonabi on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @11:00PM (#28689823)
Nice, but I think it would look suspicios if there was no gaps.
Re:How to hack your Git history to look active by Cryptonic on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @07:33PM (#28701367)
I just imagine how this cold be extended with auto generated commit messages with common form and picking from customizable word lists =)