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by simonw 1340 days ago
I love that pattern. I call it "git scraping" and I've been writing about it for a few years (and building tools too): https://simonwillison.net/series/git-scraping/
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Interesting - I've been doing similar for a while (not writing about it though), but generally "self-commit" - i.e. the code in the repo commits back to itself, usuualy using github actions, or gitlab. E.g. https://github.com/ukd1/lvms-events
That's a great example of the same pattern, really neat!

If you like you could tag it git-scraping to add it to this list: https://github.com/topics/git-scraping

Thanks, and never thought of that; will do!