r/github • u/Longjumping-Play6541 • 9d ago
Discussion Unique cloners?
I keep seeing 30+ unique cloners everyday for my open-source project and it often exceeds the number of unique viewers of my repo. Is this all bots?
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u/Kamilon 9d ago
Think about what your repo is for. Does it seem likely that 30+ new people would not only find it in a day but also clone it?
You’ll arrive at the answer.
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u/Longjumping-Play6541 9d ago
That’s the thing tho. We open-sourced a tool and we got positive feedback so I don’t see why we wouldn’t get 30+ people trying it everyday.
I mean you tell me: https://github.com/altrace-dev-role/rashomon
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u/Next-Association2464 9d ago
bots for sure. github's been crawling with them for a while now, scraping repos for crypto keys and secrets. i'd check your commit history for anything accidentally pushed if i were you
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u/Longjumping-Play6541 9d ago
Yup made sure of that. Just was wondering if our tool was actually being used by folks
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u/kincaidDev 7d ago
Ive been wondering this too, since September all of my repos have hundreds of unique cloners every 14 day window, some of them have thousands.
It can come from cicd, but mine isn’t coming from cicd. It has to be bots but Im not sure what they’re getting out of it
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u/Gargle-Loaf-Spunk 6d ago
They clone it so the history doesn’t disappear. With the commit hashes they can still view them even after you delete them, say if you noticed you put a key in a file and then deleted it before pushing.
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u/MarsupialLeast145 8d ago edited 8d ago
You have 14 stars and 3 clones -- it's bots.
Frankly, these stats are all pointless to fixate on -- how do I know? Because you read them and you don't know what they represent, no one does.