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Very cool! I used calendaraboutnothing /extensively/ - it was a hugely important motivational tool for me.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this counts contributions to non-master branches? I work mostly in branches and my calenderaboutnothing streaks were much longer.



Your commits will count for the day they were committed once they're merged to master. i.e., It's the date on the commit that matters, not the date it's eventually pushed to master. A little weird since it means past days can fill in later but we wanted to make sure they were counted.


What is this calendaraboutnothing of which you speak? Google wasn't very helpful here. I'm looking for a "streak-based calendar/motivational tool", and I gather that's what you are talking about.


It used to be at http://www.calendaraboutnothing.com/ which seems to be down now. You can get an idea from the archives: http://web.archive.org/web/20110716142534/http://calendarabo...


Yep, we don't count contributions until they hit a repository's default or gh-pages branch.


Hmm, but once they hit master they will be back-dated as contributions for that time period?


Yup, exactly.


Get those pull requests merged! :)




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