Become the most frequent committer on Github

[Mamady]

https://github.com/Mamady/green-slate

[kanzure]

There's also these:

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

https://github.com/will

https://github.com/kanzure/streak

[madsravn]

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]

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 → xr09]

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 → xr09]

I think OP is being sarcastic. ;) Though I'm sure some companies may go as far as using this. :[

[gaelow]

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

[wereHamster]

  > # 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 → wereHamster]

nice. Learning something new every day :)

[adregan]

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 → adregan]

Not sure about the most frequent ones, but there is a list of the most "active" ones here: http://git.io/top

[mck- → adregan]

Here's another one: http://gitklout.herokuapp.com/

[jonstjohn]

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]

And, how is this helpful you say?

[delinka → arelangi]

By getting you that job with people who put more value on falsifiable data than on actual skill.

[ihsw → delinka]

Public and open-source contributions aren't a measure of skill, in fact they're not a measure of anything other than public and open-source contributions.

Personally I try to keep all of my work as private as possible. There is no particular reason, I'm just a private person.

Do you really want to work for a company that measures competence based on pissing-contest and attention-whoring mentality?

[delinka → ihsw]

"Public and open-source contributions aren't a measure of skill..."

Exactly. Because they're falsifiable. I'd personally rather work for people who value skill, not falsifiable data.

[Mamady → delinka]

right but many companies try to take a shortcut - they think the best measure of skill is github.

To be fair, it's hard to qualify "skill", so shortcuts are very tempting.

[delinka]

How long before this kind of thing causes GitHub to feel the pressure of a[nother] DoS?

[zeckalpha → delinka]

It doesn't look like this makes a number of pushes, just a number of commits.

[Mamady → zeckalpha]

correct. I should probably add "git push" to the instructions.