Not sure why I did this, just thought it would be funny since people are so up their ass about ‘post git commits’ on Twitter.

Github Link Here

TLDR: 15 times a day a VPS cronjob (crontab?) runs the below script that adds the date and commits to my repo so it counts as a commit.

The noncommit dates were just figured out by hand in excel (the goat) so that by the end of the year my repo will spell ‘PAT’.

gg

  GNU nano 7.2                                     update_counter.py                                              
import datetime
import os
import subprocess

# Define the list of excluded dates (formatted as MM/DD/YYYY)
EXCLUDED_DATES = [
    "2/10/2025", "2/11/2025", "2/12/2025", "2/13/2025", "2/14/2025",
    "2/17/2025", "2/19/2025", "2/24/2025", "2/26/2025", "3/3/2025",
    "3/4/2025", "3/5/2025", "3/27/2025", "3/28/2025", "4/2/2025",
    "4/3/2025", "4/8/2025", "4/9/2025", "4/14/2025", "4/15/2025",
    "4/16/2025", "4/21/2025", "4/23/2025", "4/28/2025", "4/29/2025",
    "4/30/2025", "5/6/2025", "5/7/2025", "5/14/2025", "5/15/2025",
    "5/22/2025", "5/23/2025", "6/2/2025", "6/9/2025", "6/16/2025",
    "6/23/2025", "6/24/2025", "6/25/2025", "6/26/2025", "6/27/2025",
    "6/30/2025", "7/7/2025", "7/14/2025"
]

# Get the current date in MM/DD/YYYY format
current_date = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%m/%d/%Y")

# Check if the current date is in the excluded list
if current_date in EXCLUDED_DATES:
    print(f"Script will not run on excluded date: {current_date}")
    exit()

# Path to the repository
REPO_PATH = '/root/counting'

# Change directory to the repository
os.chdir(REPO_PATH)

# Path to the counter file
COUNTER_FILE = os.path.join(REPO_PATH, 'counter.txt')

# Append the current datetime to the file
with open(COUNTER_FILE, 'a') as f:
    f.write(f"{datetime.datetime.now()}\n")

# Stage, commit, and push changes
subprocess.run(['git', 'add', 'counter.txt'], check=True)
commit_message = f"Update counter.txt on {datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}"
subprocess.run(['git', 'commit', '-m', commit_message], check=True)
subprocess.run(['git', 'push', 'origin', 'main'], check=True)