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git-shining: Transform the GitHub contributor graph into living art
This program turns your contributor graph into a work of art by filing commits with the right dates. GitHub will automatically scan the repository and fill out the graph for you.
Or here if you want a more in-your-face example.
Constraints
Best to create or use a burner account for this; this is not for your main account.
- You must have no other activity for the year, which includes pull requests, issue comments, etc.
- You must only have one repository recording commits for the year, and it must be all commits related to your message.
- GitHub will let you back-date your commits to 1970/1/1 so be sure to use the
--origin
option if you want to exploit that.
Usage
The first step is to generate configuration. You can do this in two ways:
git-shining generate-config <json|txt>
This will generate a blank canvas for editing in JSON or TXT (more on this later) format.
or
git-shining render-font <.otf or .ttf file> <message (be sure to quote)>
This will generate a pre-filled configuration with the message rasterized to the canvas in the font provided.
Then, you can generate a repository with the generate-repository
command. Be sure to at least set the email
field of the person you want getting credit for the commits, it must map directly to a configured GitHub email:
git-shining generate-repository -i bro.txt -e wearelegion@example.org -m "Sup Bro" /tmp/test.git
After that, you can create your repository and upload it.
If you want to generate repositories that start the graph at a certain date, look at the --origin
options of build
and generate-repository
.
Configuration Formats
There are two formats for configuration: JSON and TXT.
JSON is a JSON array of integers, from 0-10, which coordinate to shading in the graph (made possible by filing more commits for brighter shades). It is easy to consume, post-process, and generate, but a little hard to edit.
TXT is an easier format to hand-edit. It is simply a well-aligned grid of integers, which you can set from 0-A
(A
is 10 here) to affect shading.
The generate-config
sub-command can generate both formats for hand-editing, and the render-font
command has switches to modify target configuration output.
Troubleshooting
- If you upload twice, you must fully delete the old repository and re-create it. Force pushes will not clear the graph.
- If you're wondering what your graph will look like before you push to GitHub, try the
build
sub-command which will generate a HTML mock of the graph you can load into your browser. You can hover over each square to get the expected date.
Future Plans
- Marquee and Mural functionality
Author
The Professional erik+github@hollensbe.org
Dependencies
~14MB
~323K SLoC