My Bots Made 433 of the Night's Commits

Описание и применение

Автор обнаружил, что 433 из 463 ночных коммитов в его блоге были сделаны ботами, а не им самим, исправив ошибочное представление о ночной работе.

Задача

The author discovered that many commits in his blog repository were made by bots during nighttime hours, misleading the perception of his own work rhythm.

Результат

The author realized that 433 of the 463 nighttime commits were made by bots, correcting the misconception that he worked night shifts.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. Run git log --all --no-merges --pretty=format:'%H%x09%ai%x09%ci%x09%ae%x09%an%x09%cn%x09%s' > commits.tsv to collect all commits.
• 2. Deduplicate commits based on (author date, subject) to remove rebase copies, yielding 3,463 commits.
• 3. Count commits per hour of day using the raw %ai timestamp, noting 473 commits between 00:00–05:59.
• 4. Inspect time zone offsets in timestamps; identify that raw timestamps are UTC while local timestamps reflect the machine’s zone.
• 5. Convert all timestamps to Istanbul time to accurately assess nighttime activity, reducing nighttime commits to 463.
• 6. Separate commits by author email to identify machine vs. human contributions; machines contributed 2,414 commits (69.7%).
• 7. Analyze nighttime buckets (00:00–05:59) per author; machines contributed 433 commits, author 30.
• 8. Review cron schedules of GitHub Actions to confirm actual run times versus commit times.
• 9. Conclude that nighttime commits are largely bot-generated, not author-generated.
• 10. Document findings and adjust perception of work rhythm.

Доказательства

Merging every branch of the blog's repository gives 3,470 commits between 31 March 2026 and 8 October 2026: 192 days.

Источник

The night total fell from 473 to 463 — 13.4 per cent instead of 13.7.

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Machines (6 addresses, 9 name signatures) 2,414 69.7%

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The 03:00 bucket holds 86 commits, and not one of them is mine.

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