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Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by mk270 » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 11:34 AM UTC

I always like to take the opportunity to plug my Chrome plugin which makes your Github landing page play Conway's game of life: https://github.com/mk270/life-contributions

Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by icebraining » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 11:43 AM UTC

mkohlmyr wrote: post #6

Alternatively, you could just.. You know.. Actually commit enough work to impress people...

Who says the point is impressing people?

Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by infinity0 » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 11:46 AM UTC

shocks wrote: post #10

infinity0 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

github activity discounts commits to non-master branches anyway, which is pretty immoral from my point of view.

It'll display correctly once you merge your non-master branches down.

doesn't seem to be working for me.

Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by kmfrk » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 11:58 AM UTC

mkohlmyr wrote: post #6

Alternatively, you could just.. You know.. Actually commit enough work to impress people...

... or ... both. :)

Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by lparry » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 12:20 PM UTC

infinity0 wrote: post #13

shocks wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'll display correctly once you merge your non-master branches down.

doesn't seem to be working for me.

complete stab in the dark here, but perhaps however you're getting your work onto master is rewriting timestamps (NFI if the graph goes off authored or commited dates).

Maybe try 'git checkout master && git merge --no-ff feature-branch' and see if that helps

Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by rfergie » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 12:57 PM UTC

infinity0 wrote: post #9

zapt02 wrote: post #2

Not sure if this morally ok, because I assume it uses git timestamps to trick the activity graph.

github activity discounts commits to non-master branches anyway, which is pretty immoral from my point of view.

Immoral seems to be a bit of a strong word here. But then I don't use git/github much.

Can you explain?

Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by pearjuice » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 1:52 PM UTC

Later: click here to flag this activity graph as fake

Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by ozh » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

Or just do it with a few daily commits, no cheat -- https://github.com/contributions

Same uselessness but, man, the anticipation ;)

Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by joshguthrie » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 10:22 PM UTC

Finally! The time has come for me to write my newest melody using http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/ !

Re: Add ASCII art to your GitHub profile page

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Post by infinity0 » Mon, Nov 04, 2013, 11:11 PM UTC

rfergie wrote: post #16

infinity0 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

github activity discounts commits to non-master branches anyway, which is pretty immoral from my point of view.

Immoral seems to be a bit of a strong word here. But then I don't use git/github much. Can you explain?

The parent post mentioned "moral", I was just making the point not to take online infographics too seriously - there are inaccuracies in both directions.