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Show HN: Bash Screensavers

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225 points attogram | 10 comments | 28 Oct 25 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source | bottom

A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.
1. FergusArgyll ◴[28 Oct 25 11:43 UTC] No.45731571[source]▶
Cool

What are those commit messages?

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2. seba_dos1 ◴[28 Oct 25 11:44 UTC] No.45731585[source]▶
Protip for the author: --allow-empty ;P
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3. madsohm ◴[28 Oct 25 11:54 UTC] No.45731642[source]▶
AI slop - or worse, somebody trying to hide something.
4. xxs ◴[28 Oct 25 12:00 UTC] No.45731668[source]▶
instead of --amend?
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5. seba_dos1 ◴[28 Oct 25 12:07 UTC] No.45731730{3}[source]▶
Instead of adding or removing a space in random files when making cute and useless commit logs.
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6. xxs ◴[28 Oct 25 12:13 UTC] No.45731788{4}[source]▶
that's what I meant - "amend" would not create any extra commits/entries
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7. seba_dos1 ◴[28 Oct 25 12:16 UTC] No.45731823{5}[source]▶
...which is not a helpful advice when what they clearly wanted is to create a bunch of extra commits.
8. warp ◴[28 Oct 25 12:25 UTC] No.45731900[source]▶
Looks like an attempt to make the main GitHub page (the part above the README) display something interesting. It is messed up now because of further commits, but you can see what it looked like at the time here:

https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/tree/a7369a93c...

9. kevincox ◴[28 Oct 25 12:29 UTC] No.45731961[source]▶
But that doesn't change the files, so it won't show up in the tree view as the user is trying to accomplish.
10. attogram ◴[28 Oct 25 12:36 UTC] No.45732020[source]▶
See the spread-the-word script in https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/tree/main/spot... This script generates a series of shell commands to create a "spotlight" message on the main GitHub repository page. It does this by generating commands that make trivial changes to the top 12 files and directories and then commit those changes with custom messages.