Fake GitHub Commits

A command-line tool to fake your GitHub activity ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯.
Forked from https://github.com/artiebits/fake-git-history

This tool was forked by @github/insights so that we can maintain a version of the tool for populating fake commit history for use in integration testing. See docs here for more info.

This tool has been published as an NPM package here https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-fake-git-history.

How To Use

1. Make sure you have Git and Node.js installed on your machine.
2. Create a new repository:
``

shell script
   mkdir my-history
   cd my-history
   touch foo.txt
   git init


3. From within the

my-history

 directory, generate your commits:

shell script
   npx gh-fake-git-history --startDate "2020/09/01" --endDate "2020/09/04"


   It will generate changes to the file for every day within the provided date range. You'll see some output like the following:

`// ♥ npx gh-fake-git-history "2020/09/01" --endDate "2020/09/04" ⠋ Generating your GitHub activity Adding 15 lines... Adding 95 lines... Removing 69 lines... Adding 36 lines... ✔ Generating your GitHub activity

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Success! 4 commits have been created. │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘`

This will result in some git history being generated like the following:

`[16:34:46] (master) my-history // ♥ git log commit 1faf416ec3ed4d52eb237ac9fbb9f3193e6ca38c (HEAD -> master) Author: SophieDeBenedetto Date: Fri Sep 4 15:30:00 2020 -0400

added 4 lines

commit 7b4c9ca257374b40b7b65c4deb34229b84914a45 Author: SophieDeBenedetto Date: Fri Sep 4 11:03:00 2020 -0400

removed 81 lines

commit 99948f84dbee96f914ade739442ce5991507712f Author: SophieDeBenedetto Date: Thu Sep 3 12:20:00 2020 -0400

modified 30 lines

commit 2d0e1a04dfea7ec7f1191f3ad5f898a55a13f2b0 Author: SophieDeBenedetto Date: Thu Sep 3 10:16:00 2020 -0400

modified 91 lines

...`4. Push themy-history repo to some dummy repo that Insights has set up for the purpose of creating dummy data for integration testing. For example, see this repo that had fake generated git history pushed to it.

Done! Go take a look at your GitHub profile 😉

`Customizations`

`$3`

Specify how many commits should be created for every single day. Default is0,3 which means it will randomly make from 0 to 3 commits a day. Example:

`shell script npx fake-git-history --commitsPerDay "0,5"`

`$3`

Use it if you don't want to commit on weekends. Example:

`shell script npx fake-git-history --workdaysOnly`

`$3`

By default, the script generates GitHub commits for every day within the last year. If you want to generate activity for a specific dates, then use these options:

`shell script npx fake-git-history --startDate "2020/09/01" --endDate "2020/09/30"`

`Development`


To contribute to this project:

* Clone down the repo * Runnpm install* Make any changes tosrc/files * Execute the tool manually vianode ./src/cli.js --startDate "2020/09/01" --endDate "2020/09/04"

Fake GitHub Commits

A command-line tool to fake your GitHub activity ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯.
Forked from https://github.com/artiebits/fake-git-history

This tool was forked by @github/insights so that we can maintain a version of the tool for populating fake commit history for use in integration testing. See docs here for more info.

This tool has been published as an NPM package here https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-fake-git-history.

How To Use

1. Make sure you have Git and Node.js installed on your machine.
2. Create a new repository:
``

shell script
   mkdir my-history
   cd my-history
   touch foo.txt
   git init


3. From within the

my-history

 directory, generate your commits:

shell script
   npx gh-fake-git-history --startDate "2020/09/01" --endDate "2020/09/04"


   It will generate changes to the file for every day within the provided date range. You'll see some output like the following:

This will result in some git history being generated like the following:

`[16:34:46] (master) my-history // ♥ git log commit 1faf416ec3ed4d52eb237ac9fbb9f3193e6ca38c (HEAD -> master) Author: SophieDeBenedetto Date: Fri Sep 4 15:30:00 2020 -0400

added 4 lines

commit 7b4c9ca257374b40b7b65c4deb34229b84914a45 Author: SophieDeBenedetto Date: Fri Sep 4 11:03:00 2020 -0400

removed 81 lines

commit 99948f84dbee96f914ade739442ce5991507712f Author: SophieDeBenedetto Date: Thu Sep 3 12:20:00 2020 -0400

modified 30 lines

commit 2d0e1a04dfea7ec7f1191f3ad5f898a55a13f2b0 Author: SophieDeBenedetto Date: Thu Sep 3 10:16:00 2020 -0400

modified 91 lines

Done! Go take a look at your GitHub profile 😉

`Customizations`

`$3`

Specify how many commits should be created for every single day. Default is0,3 which means it will randomly make from 0 to 3 commits a day. Example:

`shell script npx fake-git-history --commitsPerDay "0,5"`

`$3`

Use it if you don't want to commit on weekends. Example:

`shell script npx fake-git-history --workdaysOnly`

`$3`

By default, the script generates GitHub commits for every day within the last year. If you want to generate activity for a specific dates, then use these options:

`shell script npx fake-git-history --startDate "2020/09/01" --endDate "2020/09/30"`

`Development`


To contribute to this project:

* Clone down the repo * Runnpm install* Make any changes tosrc/files * Execute the tool manually vianode ./src/cli.js --startDate "2020/09/01" --endDate "2020/09/04"