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thomasfoster96
Brilliant.

Doubly useful seeing as I hardly ever contribute to everything.

jasallen
Genius. Stupid. And Genius.
hkmurakami
Is the left mushroom a 1-up mushroom while the right one a power-up mushroom? I must know! :P
karbin
This is fantastic, sorry. For newb question but how do you do inject into guy history like this?
slaundy
It's a Python script that takes in some options (which image, your github username, etc) and generates a bash script. Running the bash script actually makes the commits on the correct days to populate the pixels.
gelstudios
luckily git takes both GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE as environment variables. This python script generates a bash script that sets a date and commit one line changes for every pixel that needs some gitfiti.
ivarv
Nice. a video game pixel art take on github profile art. I first saw a proof of concept on Will Leinweber's profile ( https://github.com/will/ ) The downside is the top place in your 'Contributions' feed gets heavily polluted..
arcatek
Doesn't your other contributions mess with the pattern ?
mAritz
I'd expect the script to account for other past contributions. Shouldn't be too hard?!

edit: Well, except of course that it'd be impossible to change past pixels to have less colour. So you're right.

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peterkelly
Purely awesome.

I found that doing this manually was a pain; I knew someone would eventually write a script for it.