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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by aabaker99 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:26PM (#33310423)
I never understand people chasing daily commits to GitHub. You can push whatever git history you want to GitHub. I can rewrite all my commits so they are evenly distributed across however days I want to show up green on GitHub.
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by ehnto on Sunday October 23, 2022 @10:20PM (#33312335)
When I see a blank history, I just assume someone has a job and all their contributions are private.
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by clarkmcc on Sunday October 23, 2022 @11:42PM (#33312736)
If the contributions to private repos are through Github, they’ll still show up if configured https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by umutcankus on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:45AM (#33313018)
There are projects making this fun.

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

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