A tool for detecting plagiarism of Github repositories in someone else's code

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I built this tool out of annoyance.

Someone submitted an assignment that looked too well-done for the amount of time given.

My suspicion made me CSI into Github.

Unfortunately for him, it led me to finding the repositories he cloned.

I was annoyed that he cloned a repository for my technical assignment, and vowed to not let this happen to me again.

I decided to build a tool to automate this process, for my own sake, and hopefully for other hiring managers out there.

Sample output:

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