A command-line tool that generates git commits in your repo to make it (and you?) look popular and regularily coding.
- Make sure you have Git installed and setup (set your email address and name for example).
- Create your git repo where you want to generate commits.
git init. - Download the app, it's command line based.
- Give it a run then push the results.
- Profit...?
mkdir fake-history
cd fake-history
git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:<USERNAME>/fake-history.git
~/Downloads/git-popular --start 2020-01-01 --end 2023-03-02 --dir . --monday 5 --tuesday 5 --wednesday 6 --thursday 5 --friday 9
git push -u origin masterI don't want your money, but you can still support it by making PRs to make it good-er.
These are all set using as --argument-name VALUE
In YYYY-MM-DD format, set the date to start and stop generating commits.
EG: --start 2021-02-03 and --end 2023-03-04
Set the working directory.
EG: --dir /home/username/projects/work/company/microservice-name/
The maxiumn number of commits to create on that day of the week. It will generate a random amount of commits between zero and the number you supply. Highier the number, more commits are more likely. The default is 0 so if you don't set any days, no commits will be generated.
EG: --monday 5 and --tuesday 12
Shows some help information.
EG: --help
Shows the version information.
EG: --version
This tool was created for me to learn and play with Rust. Is it cheating to make your GitHub look more active than it actually is? Yes, but whocares as the number of commits isn't an accurate measure of a persons skill. This isn't my idea and whilst searching for existing projects I found these.
- fake-git-history [JS]
- Autopopulate your contribution graph [GitHub Action]
Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".
Charles Goodhart, Wikipedia