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Abusing GitHub commit history for the lulz

story by FergusArgyll · 2025-10-09 · 0 comments

…making my life any richer, reading it. [0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff [1] https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2025-10-09 · in A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator

There are projects making this fun. https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by umutcankus · 2022-10-24 · in Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub

…create and push commit with arbitrary date, using GIT_AUTHOR_DATE env variable or --date flag. [1]: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by ivanjermakov · 2022-10-23 · in Gamification affects software developers: Cautionary evidence from GitHub

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Gitfiti: Abusing GitHub commit history for the lulz

story by notmysql_ · 2022-09-12 · 0 comments

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by judge2020 · 2022-08-25 · in GitHub “allows” unauthorized users “merging” PRs, bypass write permission check?

Decorating the commit history calendar has been around since forever: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti Fake code generators have been around since forever: https://hackertyper.net/ Combining them seems like the logical next step.

comment by NavinF · 2022-08-20 · in Tell HN: A new way to use GPT-3 to generate code (and everything else)

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Carefully crafted graffiti in a GitHub commit history calendar

story by ducaale · 2021-07-03 · 0 comments

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Abusing GitHub commit history for the lulz

story by nethunters · 2021-02-19 · 0 comments

Also https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti and loads more: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti#notable-derivatives-or...

comment by harry-wood · 2020-10-01 · in DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

…to monetize this. There's actually FOSS version that draws pixel art in your contribution history: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti It's pretty funny, though it doesn't look like its actively maintained anymore. To quote from one of…

comment by gonzal00t · 2020-05-06 · in I got my first $50/mo customer

…You can just create a repo and backdate commits to do it instantly. Like this for example: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by scandinavian · 2020-05-06 · in I got my first $50/mo customer

…made far less pleasant by the ability to feed arbitrary dates into a Git repo's commit history: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti I'm sure there's a way to find the actual time a push happened; hopefully it doesn't involve subpoenaing…

comment by yellowapple · 2019-11-06 · in Re-Licensing Sentry

Couldn't he have simply back dated a commit (or edited the time of an existing commit)? Ex. https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by cj · 2019-09-03 · in Show HN: Simple tool to make a habit of exercising

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Gitfiti – abusing GitHub commit history for the lulz

story by mromnia · 2019-02-13 · 0 comments

That green dot chart on your profile is trivial to fake: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by avian · 2018-11-24 · in Ask HN: What’s your reaction if MS made GitHub stats available to recruiters?

…you could even create backdated fake commits if you wanted to. https://github.com/tickelton/ghdecoy https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by grenran · 2018-06-08 · in Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs

An aside: the contribution graph can be gamed: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by ISL · 2018-06-07 · in Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs

…depth. To answer your question it's based on commit time, but because of that you have things like: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by derimagia · 2018-03-09 · in Why GitHub Won't Help with Hiring

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Abusing GitHub commit history for the lulz

story by sgt · 2017-06-24 · 0 comments

…art out of their github commits [1] (only without the ability to retroactively modify the dates)? https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by shmageggy · 2017-06-23 · in After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

If I am bored I would at least try to kill 2 birds with one stone and not to reinvent the wheel: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by fagnerbrack · 2016-09-23 · in Faking Git contributions

Alternative : https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by NicoJuicy · 2016-09-23 · in Faking Git contributions

Yes, like this. https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti Setting the GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE environment variables.

comment by rhaps0dy · 2016-07-02 · in US Declaration of Independence first and final drafts as GitHub diffs

probably done with https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by rybro · 2016-06-18 · in Pieter Hintjens GitHub contribution history (pacman art)

…I think this can also be used to show fake contribution within private repos with a bot like these https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti it becomes easy to show more activity without doing much work.

comment by hiby007 · 2016-05-20 · in More contributions on your profile

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti and similar are pretty easy to spot. As a user I'd be biased to someone who used that for fun over someone who ('faking' or in all seriousness) has a ton of repos with lots of activity that are…

comment by Jach · 2016-05-20 · in More contributions on your profile

There are also commit bots for other contribution graph hacks: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by nandhp · 2016-05-19 · in More contributions on your profile

Agreed: GitHub commit history timing metadata means nothing. https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by j_s · 2016-04-27 · in Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

…lan.com/2013/11/15/why-github-is-not-your-c... [2] https://tommcfarlin.com/github-is-not-your-cv/ [3] https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti [4] https://github.com/will/githubprofilecheat [5] http://mikeboers.com/blog/2014/10/26/the-evils-of…

comment by nadams · 2015-08-08 · in Using a single AWS account is a serious risk

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Gitfiti – GitHub pixel art

story by tdaltonc · 2015-07-22 · 0 comments

People have even used it to create pixel art :) https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by almost · 2015-07-18 · in Rockstar lib will make you a Rockstar programmer in 2 lines of code

Here's another: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by shrig94 · 2015-05-29 · in Addy Osmani's Commit History

…thanks to GitHub's ability to accept commits in the past. Another similar tool is: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by tagawa · 2015-05-04 · in “I love dev tools” on Addy Osmani's contributions calendar

GitHub activity vandalism has been around for a while. e.g. https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by Jach · 2015-01-30 · in How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014)

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by algorithm_dk · 2014-06-04 · in Look at this guy's GitHub commit history

Here are some similar tools I've used for this in the past: https://github.com/pikesley/pokrovsky https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by usea · 2014-05-17 · in Show HN: Generate a git repo to show a banner on your Github profile

Its been there since a long time now, https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by scottydelta · 2014-05-04 · in I love GitHub (look at the commit history)

I was impressed until I looked at his commit history. He used a script to do this: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by creepr · 2014-02-10 · in Zach Will's GitHub "contributions" chart looks like the 1UP Mushroom

You should use this tool, IMO. It creates images with your commit history graph :-) https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by morganherlocker · 2014-01-22 · in New Year, New CEO for GitHub

You can even "cheat" the streak to look cool https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by yaph · 2013-11-09 · in 177 Days of GitHub

Here's one: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by aram · 2013-11-09 · in 177 Days of GitHub

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Carefully crafted graffiti in a GitHub commit history calendar

story by taspeotis · 2013-11-04 · 0 comments

…ago | flag | cached | share | 4 comments Add art to your GitHub profile page (May 2013) [1] [1] https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

comment by taspeotis · 2013-11-04 · in Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

It's not a coincidence. Actually it's a lot simpler than coincidence. 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…

comment by Ygg2 · 2013-09-26 · in The proper way to contribute on Github

There's also these: https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti https://github.com/will https://github.com/kanzure/streak

comment by kanzure · 2013-08-07 · in Become the most frequent committer on Github

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Pixel art for your Github contribution calendar

story by slaundy · 2013-05-20 · 16 comments