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Josh Branchaud
Personal blog · joshbranchaud.com · on HN as jbranchaudprogrammingdata
Josh Branchaud's personal blog at joshbranchaud.com covers programming and data. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post about the GitHub contributions graph and how commits made under other people's names are counted. It was cited in a thread on commit spoofing in Git.
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What Hacker News says?
As several others have pointed out, this isn't a security issue or a bug, it's just how Git works. However, it does make me wonder something. Do these spoofed commits count towards the "Contributions" visualization on GitHub user profile pages? I wonder if you could do this but on other people's profile pages: http://joshbranchaud.com/blog/2013/06/06/Fun-with-GitHubs-Co...
Comment linking /blog/2013/06/06/Fun-with-GitHubs-Contribution-Graphs.html
on “Why does GitHub let me commit as other people?”Submitted Timestamp Functions in PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyperlinking to Commits on GitHub as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Date Formatting in Jekyll as a story · 2 points
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