theshteves / commit-bot

Automatically generates GitHub activity

GitHub Commit Bot

Generate Organic™ GitHub activity
My most insidious idea yet

Once a day (if my laptop is open),
commit-bot adds today's line:

Commit: Wed Sep 25 22:00:00 EDT 2019

This is a Bash script
designed to be run locally
(i.e. on your machine)

But @theshteves,
I want this to run every day

Oh hush

Nobody commits every day
Is that what you want?
🚫 Sorry, not today

We're looking for a more realistic distribution of activity throughout the year

Getting Started

If you're on Windows™,
setup the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Install git if git --version errors out

1. Open your command-line
   & navigate to whatever folder you prefer

2. Fork this project on GitHub

3. Download your new copy of this project

git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/commit-bot.git

Don't forget to include your username

3. Test run the script
   in case you need to fix permissions issues

/bin/bash ./commit-bot/bot.sh

4. Open your crontab to set a trigger

crontab -e

NOTE:
If this makes your screen almost blank
with no toolbar of keys to navigate,
you've probably entered the text editor Vim

Remember, press "i" to start [i]nserting text

When you're finished,
press "Esc" repeatedly until nothing happens

Then type ":wq" to save & quit
or ":q!" to quit without saving

5. Add this line to schedule every 10pm or whenever

0 22 * * * /bin/bash /<full-path-to-your-folder>/commit-bot/bot.sh

Do not forget to include the correct folder path

NOTE:
Make sure you save your changes
on your way out!

To verify your cron installation:

crontab -l

that should print the same line
we just saved to your crontab

Now, to celebrate, test your script 🎉

/bin/bash /<full-path-to-your-folder>/commit-bot/bot.sh

commit-bot's Issues

Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021.

remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021.
remote: Please see https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/about-remote-repositories#cloning-with-https-urls for information on currently recommended modes of authentication.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/KeroAutishima/commit-bot.git/'

Create Arbitrary Words on GitHub Activity Page

This script should be able to write words on my GitHub activity history page. Words like HACK or my username. This can be achieved by differing the amount of commit activity per day to get differently shaded boxes.

To go a step further, this script should take into account any activity from the day and be able to throttle the number of commits to continue writing a word.

How to use this ?

What i need is to just add a space character at the end of readme file of a repo i have , so i have at least 1 contribution per day.

Is that possible with this ? Do i need to have the computer opened or it can execute somehow i can put in cloud and proxy it ?

commits not showing on my profile

Hi guys, I see the commits in the repo, but in my profile there is no green mark, why is that? did I do something wrong?

How to build professional profile on git

I see that this project works like a cron job to add commits randomly on certain days.

How to use it?

FUN FACT: we documented a change in the date utility!

Oh wow!

Notice anything interesting between lines 375 & 380?

commit-bot/output.txt

Lines 375 to 380 in e2ef916

	Commit: Mon May 8 20:00:00 PDT 2017
	Commit: Wed May 10 20:00:00 PDT 2017
	Commit: Thu May 11 20:00:00 PDT 2017
	Commit: Fri May 12 20:00:00 PDT 2017
	Commit: Sat May 13 20:00:00 PDT 2017
	Commit: Thu Oct 5 16:39:31 EDT 2017

This project has been running long enough to catch a change in the MacOS date utility's formatting!

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