I totally agree about the private repo thing. In fact I emailed them and they added to their Feature Request List™

I suggest you email <support@github.com> to let them know more than one person would like the feature :)

Then it would be much easier to "cheat" the streak thingy, just make private repo and a script to make and push a XXX number of commits, each one with different timestamp and random data inside.

You can even "cheat" the streak to look cool https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

Now that is brilliant. Bravo.

I didn't realise github didn't show private activity until after bragging to a friend about my thirty day streak, only to realise he only saw a four day streak.

284 days in my streak, only public repos. https://github.com/zsiciarz

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mmm hm.

your graph looks similar to the authors. Huge sprawling areas of meaningless changes, punctuated by actual work, which more or less was consistent throughout history.

Do you feel this is a meaningful metric?

Is this healthy?

I think so. There's a big difference between coding every day and coding all day. Sometimes I only get one or two commits in. I spend the rest of my time running, rock climbing, reading, and socializing. Not having a TV or Netflix subscription really helps my productivity.

Also, I want to write software. If I didn't, doing it every day would take phenomenal willpower.