Would you like to be judged by the number of lines of code you submit? It's not much different than being judged by your commit graph on GitHub. If we judge our

Would you like to be judged by the number of lines of code you submit? It's not much different than being judged by your commit graph on GitHub. If we judge ourselves, and others by this ridiculous metric, we're cheapening our profession. We are knowledge workers. We work by thinking and acting. A graph captures none of the first. The most valuable code I've ever written for an employer was about 100 lines that took 2 weeks to write. Would the commit graph capture that? I have gotten into arguments with my boss about hiring based on commit graphs and commit counts. I lost. We hired someone who checks in a lot of stuff, but often has to fix it with other changes. His graph and change count looks great. It's a nightmare working with him. In my experience, commit graphs are bogus.