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It’s not just blame. GitHub uses commits to build the contributor list on your repo home page, so you can make it look like it has some famous contributors: ht
by brianpursley 5y ago
It’s not just blame. GitHub uses commits to build the contributor list on your repo home page, so you can make it look like it has some famous contributors:
https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else/graphs/contributors https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else/graphs/c...
- nkozyra 5y agoOh man. I was thinking they'd probably patch that but ... how could they?
- albertgoeswoof 5y agoOnly show contributions with GPG signed commits
- hda111 5y agoGPG is the solution. It’s so easy to use.
- albertgoeswoof 5y agoYou are both right and wrong at the same time
- gpm 5y agoI'm actually shocked that's an issue. I assumed they were recording actions taken via the github UI and APIs, not the git commit log. If someone merges a pull request you opened, poof, you contributed the lines merged from that pull request regardless of the git author line. Same if you run `git push` with your github login credentials. Apart from attributing things to the wrong person, git author line seems like it must also have the issue of not attributing things at all. What if I signed up with a different email address than I use for git?
- DoctorOW 5y agoI'm not sure how helpful it is but you can add additional email addresses to your account here: https://github.com/settings/emails https://github.com/settings/emails
- MeinBlutIstBlau 5y agoSo gonna use this to game my gihub account honestly. At least it can make saying "I'm a team player" much easier.