So, there is a friend of mine and she had her birthday. I noticed that she has not created a github user account yet, so I went ahead to create one for her. And wrote this application, to design and create a special birthday message for her.
- Java runtime environment (https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8-downloads-2133155.html)
- A bash terminal (https://gitforwindows.org/ will work like a charm for Windows users)
Step-1 Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/mavrk/github-graffiti
Step-2 Open the GUI editor
cd github-graffiti
cd dist
java -jar Selectable_Grid.jar
Click on any cell to color it, click again to cycle through colors
Step-3 Once done with making your design, right clicking anywhere inside the designer window. Enter the date (when you want this pattern to be displayed). A dates.txt file will be generated.
If dates.txt isn't generated for you. Run the jar file using a terminal and copy the content generated in the terminal to a new file dates.txt
Step-4 Create a new repository (or use an old one). Let us call this 'myrepo'
Step-5 git clone https://github.com/myuser/myrepo
Step-6 If the repository is not initialised git init
Step-7 To make sure that your commits are reflected in the contributions chart add the email address
git config --local user.email mysuer@xyz.com
NOTE : This email should be assosciated to the same github account you created the repo in.
Step-8 Copy dates.txt and paint.sh into myrepo where 'myrepo' is your repository.
cd /your_path/github-graffiti/dist
cp dates.txt /your_path/myrepo
cd /your_path/github-graffiti
cp paint.sh /your_path/myrepo
Step-9 Run the script
bash paint.sh dates.txt