This program turns your contributor graph into a work of art by filing commits with the right dates. GitHub will automatically scan the repository and fill out the graph for you.
Or here if you want a more in-your-face example.
Best to create or use a burner account for this; this is not for your main account.
--origin option if you want to exploit that.The first step is to generate configuration. You can do this in two ways:
git-shining generate-config <json|txt>
This will generate a blank canvas for editing in JSON or TXT (more on this later) format.
or
git-shining render-font <.otf or .ttf file> <message (be sure to quote)>
This will generate a pre-filled configuration with the message rasterized to the canvas in the font provided.
Then, you can generate a repository with the generate-repository command. Be sure to at least set the email field of the person you want getting credit for the commits, it must map directly to a configured GitHub email:
git-shining generate-repository -i bro.txt -e wearelegion@example.org -m "Sup Bro" /tmp/test.git
After that, you can create your repository and upload it.
If you want to generate repositories that start the graph at a certain date, look at the --origin options of build and generate-repository.
There are two formats for configuration: JSON and TXT.
JSON is a JSON array of integers, from 0-10, which coordinate to shading in the graph (made possible by filing more commits for brighter shades). It is easy to consume, post-process, and generate, but a little hard to edit.
TXT is an easier format to hand-edit. It is simply a well-aligned grid of integers, which you can set from 0-A (A is 10 here) to affect shading.
The generate-config sub-command can generate both formats for hand-editing, and the render-font command has switches to modify target configuration output.
build sub-command which will generate a HTML mock of the graph you can load into your browser. You can hover over each square to get the expected date.The Professional