177 Days of GitHub

I&#x27;m currently on day 252 of a streak: <a href="https://github.com/waywardmonkeys/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;waywardmonkeys&#x2F;</a><p>Most days are pretty easy. Being that I maintain a large project (Open Dylan), there is almost always a simple bug to fix, documentation to improve, typos to correct, bugs to file, pull requests to merge from others.<p>It has been great for keeping things moving and making sure that every day, I make at least a little bit of progress. Every day, at least a tiny step forward.

I tried the same thing a few months ago (this lasted 58 days), but some days you just don’t want to work.<p>A few notes:<p>- it’s the time of the commit which is important, not the push. So you can contribute on your projects locally if you don’t have Internet access (e.g. on vacations), and then push at the end of the week. It’ll be the same as having pushed everyday during one week (this works with personal projects, be careful with projects where there are other contributors)<p>- Only contributions on &#x27;master&#x27; are counted by GitHub, so if you use multiple branchs for new features &#x2F; bug fixes, the contributions will count only when (and if) you’ll merge them into master

And yet somehow we&#x27;re still surprised when clueless managers try to measure productivity in lines of code or quality in test coverage percentage...

I had the same kind of motivations and had a 83 day long streak. Was finding it difficult to contribute a lot on weekends. One travel broke my streak and was happy for it. <a href="https://github.com/manojlds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;manojlds</a><p>Blogging on github ( octopress, Jekyll, static files etc ) is one of the easiest ways to contribute.<p>Btw, anyone with similar habit for consecutive days visited on stackoverflow? <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/users/526535/manojlds" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;users&#x2F;526535&#x2F;manojlds</a>

This has little to do with GitHub itself - I&#x27;m surprised the term open-source is only mentioned once.

Really curious about what, if any, side effects you picked up. Getting a commit streak is cool, but did you learn anything about networking, or finding open source projects to create&#x2F;contribute to? Something that you feel you&#x27;ll be able to take with you into your work habit (aside from the awesome &quot;learn how to habit&quot;).<p>Great post!

Still haven&#x27;t broken my 30 day streak record since the last time I wrote about it [0]. Bums me out.<p>0 - <a href="http://blog.chewxy.com/2013/06/25/dry-spell/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chewxy.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;25&#x2F;dry-spell&#x2F;</a>

162 days here! Was about to write a blog post about it - but I still need to finish the vaporware blog engine I&#x27;ve been working on for the last five years :)

If you ARE going to make pretty patterns on your Github contributions graph, make sure you view them with my &quot;Conway&#x27;s Game Of Life in Github Contributions Page&quot; Chrome Plugin: <a href="https://github.com/mk270/life-contributions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mk270&#x2F;life-contributions</a>

173 days here: <a href="https://github.com/pkulchenko;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pkulchenko;</a> haven&#x27;t pushed today&#x27;s changes yet...<p>I like the fact that sometimes you don&#x27;t have time to start something complex, but find small improvements or documentation updates that can be made.

Mine was 126 days, and my story went almost exactly like this, down to the end: I just kinda... spaced out. Even in a month with something like 50,000 miles flown, committed every day. But at some point, it just didn&#x27;t matter any more, and I slipped up.

I&#x27;m currently on day 211 mysef[1]. About 50 of those days were contributions made from my Nexus 4 (Connectbot, tmux, vim) while traveling without a laptop.<p>1: <a href="https://github.com/uggedal/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uggedal&#x2F;</a>

Hah, just did the same thing since last month. Only manage to have a 33-day long streak ( <a href="https://github.com/cheeaun/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cheeaun&#x2F;</a> ). Perhaps will do it again when I feel motivated :)

I&#x27;ve been doing the commit every day thing for a while. Not quite as long as the author, but it&#x27;s still something.<p><a href="https://github.com/zachlatta" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zachlatta</a>

<a href="http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=ryanseys" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;song-of-github.herokuapp.com&#x2F;?username=ryanseys</a><p>A song of GitHub for this user is quite interesting ;)

So what&#x27;s exactly going to happen if you somehow break the chain?<p>You&#x27;re all being gamed by a flashy calendar.

uow! I haven&#x27;t even ever seen this streak thing (too busy commiting all the time). Mine is pretty big and I&#x27;m ashamed to make it public hehehe<p>Anyway, you MUST make commit an habit. If you&#x27;re into gamification, force yourself to do that and you won&#x27;t regret.

A really interesting experiment, and congrats for sticking to it for so long!

I like the concept but like not having my laptop on my vacations more.

my current streak is 4 days :&#x2F;<p>but i just recommitted a project that&#x27;s been dormant for 10 months so maybe I can pick away at it and make it not suck by the end of the week.

Do commits to private repos count towards the streak?

this could easily be automated to make sure you don&#x27;t miss a day if you keep a commit buffer offline