GitHub Activity Demo Script

This script aims to prove why you should not be too quick at judging people by their GitHub activity stats.

The script will turn your contributions graph from this:

Into this:

In 20-30 seconds.

Use for demo purposes only!

To execute just run the following commaind inside a demo repository:

1. First download the script
2. After that run the script
3. Finally, push your changes to GitHub

Get started

export ACTIVITY_BR=main ; export MAX_PAST_DAYS=365 ; export COMMIT_NB= ; export COMMIT_MAX=7 ; \
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ccdd12/github-activity-bash-script/main/activity.sh \
 | bash ;

Install

bash -c 'UPDATE_BIN="${HOME}/.local/bin" ; \
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ccdd12/github-activity-bash-script/main/activity.sh \
     --output ${UPDATE_BIN}/${gh-gen-activity.sh} && \
${UPDATE_BIN}/${gh-gen-activity.sh} --update && \
${UPDATE_BIN}/${gh-gen-activity.sh} --interactive --branch=main --past=365 --commit-max=10 '

Documentation

env	description	type	default value	command line arguments
ACTIVITY_BR	working git branch	string	main	--branch | --br | -b {value}	--branch={value}
MAX_PAST_DAYS	number of past days	integer	365	--past | -p {value}	--past={value}
COMMIT_NB	exactly git commit number each past day.	integer	∅	--commit-nb | --nb | -n {value}	--commit-nb={value} | --nb={value}
COMMIT_MAX	randomly git commit number each past day between [1…max]. used only if COMMIT_NB is empty. if both COMMIT_MAX and COMMIT_NB empty, randomly commit number each past day between [1..7]	integer	7	--commit-max | --max | -m {value}	--commit-max={value} | --nb={value}
GITHUB_AUTHOR	owner of github repo to update from	string	ccdd12	--gh-author {value}	--gh-author={value}
REPONAME	github repo to update from	string	github-activity-bash-script	--reponame {value}	--reponame={value}
ASSET_FILENAME	release asset filename to download	string	gh-gen-activity.sh	--asset-fname {value}	--asset-fname={value}
UPDATE_BIN	update and install to given path	string	${HOME}/.local/bin	--update {value}	--update={value}
SELECTED_UPDATE_FUN	bash function to run when update requested. this foes not launch update action	string	update_ghrelease | update_ghrepo | update_ghpage	--update-fun {value}	--update-fun={value}
∅	interactive mode, ask user to create repo on github and push to it automatically. does not work in pipe (ex. curl -sL https://...../activity.sh | bash)	∅		--interactive | -i

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Here is why you should not be too quick at judging people by their GitHub activity stats