Not all of us commit code to public repositories everyday. All the commits we push to a work repository or a private repository goes doesn't show up on the your public profile's heatmap. This makes me sad because I want a nice commit heatmap.

Want your Github commit heatmap to look like this

instead of this?

Just fork this repo, and clone it to your local disk (via SSH), replacing <YOUR-GIT-USERNAME> with your git username

git clone [email protected]:<YOUR-GIT-USERNAME>/commit-flooder.git

and add these two lines to your .bashrc or .zshrc - basically any piece of code that runs upon the initialization of a new shell session. Replace $REPO_LOCATION with the path to this repository on your local disk.

# Git commit-flooder
(bash $REPO_LOCATION/commit-flooder/commit-flooder.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &)

You'll want to make sure that you cloned the repository via SSH instead of HTTPS, then ensure that your Github SSH key is added loaded in your SSH-agent. (look here if you don't know what I'm talking about) This way, you can automagically push commits in the background each time you start a shell without being bothered by a username/password prompt.

You will push a commit to your own forked version of this repository each time you open a new shell session.

The commit-flooder.sh script calls openssl rand -base64 32 to generate a random string. If your system doesn't have an OpenSSL installation and don't want to install it, you can use any other method you wish to generate random strings.