Build nonsense roadblocks get nonsense solutions

I wonder if you can just backfill "activity" by just setting the time on your commits: Generate a list of all the files in the git repo. Delete the .git dir git init Commit each file with a date in the past with some kind of bash one liner feeding each file into: git add filename && git commit --date "X day ago" -m "wrote filename" git remote add origin git push -f -u origin main