I imagine someone making significant commits to some big open source projects and after a few months say "oh by the way I spelled 'hello' on my github page". Badass.
The poster you replied to is saying that the "contributions" were created solely for the purpose of making a pretty contribution graph; they're not actually legitimate (code, issue, etc.) contributions to an actual project.
It doesn't take a few months, you can just change the date on your computer when you commit. There is a script somewhere that will fill your activity with Nintendo characters.
I've always assumed it's pulling the dates from the commits, not from a separate log of git pushes. And of course those can and should have whatever date they were committed in hem.
No, it's about the "Public Contributions" section where there are a bunch of green squares showing contributions over time. In this case, they spell out the word "hello", and there's part of a mushroom from Mario at the start as well.
This is oblivious a coincidence. I hope no one here would think with their right mind that there was any kind of intelligence behind that. It must have happened by chance.
Edit: Sorry about the misleading title. I just referred to a tweet and put this up here. Changed the title now. Also, there are some dummy contributions, like line edits and delete. But check out some cooler links with actual contributions and fun Github graph art.
It's actually slightly annoying that Github sorts the commits by commit date instead of the author date.
When you rebase your branch a few times to clean up the history, you may end up with a PR commit overview that does not chronologically reflect what happened during development.
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https://github.com/Androguide/gitfity/commits?author=Androgu...
I imagine someone making significant commits to some big open source projects and after a few months say "oh by the way I spelled 'hello' on my github page". Badass.
The title is slightly misleading.
Via http://bd808.com/blog/2013/04/17/hacking-github-contribution...
Pushed 1,848 commits to will/githubprofilecheat2
https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti.
https://github.com/Androguide/gitfity/commits?author=Androgu...
Also look at the commits made, it actually just adds a bunch of new lines in a file and deletes it.
Laters guise.
Update: the title has been updated.
See http://kivikakk.ee/2013/05/07/contrigraph.html
[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11857467/114359
Makes PR reviews a bit confusing at times.
You should probably tag this as NSFW.
At least can generate these from .png files.