Github-gardener is destroying the legitimacy of GitHub as a valid portfolio for applying in high-tech jobs, and it's frustrating. I will never stupe this low, and you shouldn't either.

who? and why should I give a shit

@JoshBent look it up. It's a subscription-based service that creates blank commits for you on a GitHub repo (mostly private) so you look like you're productive and contributing to open-source projects. (You're not)

It's disingenuous and destroys all the value of having an active GitHub account. Anyone who uses that is scummy.

Also, you wouldn't comment if you didn't care.

@fdrobidoux link, all I can find is this: https://github.com/gardener

@JoshBent I didn't want to give the creator free publicity, which is why I didn't include a link.

@JoshBent it's called Git Gardener. My bad.

Why would anyone care about the amount of commits someone makes? They should have a look at how the commits look like (whether they are of good quality)

@b3b3 Recruiters usually go very surface-level with these kind of things. They don't really look at the commits. Private repos don't show commits but they do count in the commit graph. It is a problem regardless.

@fdrobidoux yeah fuck. Generating lots of commits can be done in 1 line of bash though

@b3b3 The service does it for you everyday, with varying amount of commits per day. That's whats scummy about it.

@fdrobidoux That does sound kind of lame... But I think most employers don’t care all that much about commit frequency. Also it will raise a lot of red flags for them if they see someone with a lot of private commits and no public commits. Also don’t need a service for that, you can forge your own git history with a simple python script.