Become the most frequent committer on Github

kanzure 12 years ago |

There's also these:

madsravn 12 years ago |

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 |

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 | |

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 | |

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

wereHamster 12 years ago |

  > # 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 | |

nice. Learning something new every day :)

gaelow 12 years ago |

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 |

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 | |

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

mck- 12 years ago | |

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

jonstjohn 12 years ago |

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 |

And, how is this helpful you say?

delinka 12 years ago | |

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

ihsw 12 years ago | | |

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 12 years ago | | |

"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 12 years ago | | |

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 12 years ago |

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

zeckalpha 12 years ago | |

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

Mamady 12 years ago | | |

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