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Become the most frequent committer on Github

28 points| Mamady | 12 years ago |github.com | reply

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[+] madsravn|12 years ago|reply
I was slightly confused when I opened this link. I was pretty sure I didn't click the "Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever " link which also was on the front page at the time.
[+] xr09|12 years ago|reply
But that's cheating...

Do you want to work for a company that buys this lie and make them believe you are a code machine?

That lie WILL bite you in the back some day.

[+] ihsw|12 years ago|reply
Personally I like to fuck with people who take themselves too seriously, and those companies -- companies that put "fully public, open-source contributions" at the top of their list of desirable (but not mandatory) job postings -- are certainly full of themselves.
[+] samspenc|12 years ago|reply
I think OP is being sarcastic. ;) Though I'm sure some companies may go as far as using this. :[
[+] wereHamster|12 years ago|reply

  > # make a change to file.rb
You don't need to change the file to create a commit. Just run this with appropriate range of committer dates:

  > GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=? git commit --allow-empty;
[+] Mamady|12 years ago|reply
nice. Learning something new every day :)
[+] gaelow|12 years ago|reply
I like it, not because I like cheating but because I think it exemplifies how bullshit this notion that more commits == more commited is, and how it encourages people pulling shit all the time. Even Linus is mad about it xD
[+] adregan|12 years ago|reply
Is there a way to tell the most frequent committer on Github? Maybe if there is Github could award a prize every month—a gift certificate to a pizza place maybe?

(in secret of course)

[+] cheeaun|12 years ago|reply
Not sure about the most frequent ones, but there is a list of the most "active" ones here: http://git.io/top
[+] jonstjohn|12 years ago|reply
I actually just started a challenge to do 100 commits in 100 days, and I'm up to almost 70 (w/ a streak of 31). This seems so much easier :P
[+] arelangi|12 years ago|reply
And, how is this helpful you say?
[+] delinka|12 years ago|reply
By getting you that job with people who put more value on falsifiable data than on actual skill.
[+] delinka|12 years ago|reply
How long before this kind of thing causes GitHub to feel the pressure of a[nother] DoS?
[+] zeckalpha|12 years ago|reply
It doesn't look like this makes a number of pushes, just a number of commits.