Your GitHub Graph is Lying About How Much You Work. Here's How I Fixed Mine.

I work 50+ hours a week writing code. My GitHub profile says I'm barely active.

Sound familiar? If you work on private repos — enterprise GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, self-hosted — none of that shows on your contribution graph. Recruiters see empty squares. Your profile looks dead.

I got tired of it and built contrib-mirror — a CLI that mirrors your real commit timestamps to a public repo. No code exposed. No fake commits. Just your actual work activity, finally visible.

Install

brew tap yuvrajangadsingh/contrib-mirror
brew install contrib-mirror

Or use the one-liner:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yuvrajangadsingh/private-work-contributions-mirror/main/install.sh | bash

The setup wizard auto-detects your repos, emails, and org:

contrib-mirror --setup   # configure once
contrib-mirror           # sync anytime

How It Works

1. Discovers repos in your work directory
2. Creates bare caches (no source code touched)
3. Extracts commit timestamps matching your email
4. Optionally pulls PR/review/issue timestamps via GitHub API
5. Creates empty commits with matching dates in a public mirror repo
6. Pushes to GitHub

Zero code is ever exposed. The mirror contains only empty commits with timestamps.

It Also Tracks PRs and Reviews

GitHub counts more than commits — PRs opened, reviews submitted, and issues created all count toward your graph. With gh CLI authenticated, contrib-mirror picks those up too.

Set It and Forget It

Add a cron job or launchd agent and it syncs daily at midnight. Your graph stays green without you thinking about it.

The setup wizard handles scheduling too — just pick launchd or cron when prompted.

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yuvrajangadsingh / private-work-contributions-mirror

Mirror commit timestamps from private work repos to your GitHub contribution graph—without exposing any code

Private Work Contributions Mirror

Mirror commit timestamps from private work repos to your GitHub contribution graph—without exposing any code.

Before                              After
┌────────────────────────┐          ┌────────────────────────┐
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │          │ ░█░██░█░░█░██░█░░█░██░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │    →     │ ░█░██░█░░█░██░█░░█░██░ │
│ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ │          │ ░█░██░█░░█░██░█░░█░██░ │
└────────────────────────┘          └────────────────────────┘
  Private work invisible              Real activity visible

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Install

One-liner (recommended):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yuvrajangadsingh/private-work-contributions-mirror/main/install.sh | bash

Homebrew:

brew tap yuvrajangadsingh/contrib-mirror
brew install contrib-mirror

Manual:

git clone https://github.com/yuvrajangadsingh/private-work-contributions-mirror.git
cd private-work-contributions-mirror
bash setup.sh

The installer runs an interactive setup wizard that auto-detects your repos, emails, and GitHub org.

Usage

contrib-mirror            # run sync
contrib-mirror --setup    # reconfigure
contrib-mirror --help     # show help
contrib-mirror --version  # show version

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Prerequisites

Requirement	Why	Check
Git	Clone repos, create commits	git --version
Bash	Run the script	bash --version
Access to private repos	Fetch commits (SSH or HTTPS)	git remote -v in any work repo
GitHub CLI (optional)	Track PRs, reviews, issues	cli.github.com

Works with…

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