HACKER Q&A
📣 jmspring

Tracking activity on GitHub – where commits come from


I know github (the site, not enterprise) does not support looking at the IP addresses of commits. However, there is a timestamp associated with each commit and a GMT offset. Is that GMT offset accurate to the timezone where a commit is generated? Or relative to the person doing the commit?

Are there other ways of finding out where commits originate?

The use case here is trying to figure out if a contractor is outsourcing the work to other / cheaper labor.

  👤 stocktech Accepted Answer ✓
That GMT offset is probably from your browser. The github API doesn't include timezone information.

If this is the direction you want to go, the only way I can think of determining this is by telling the contractor to use a github account you control and then monitoring the logged in sessions.