I’m working on a Lemmy/PieFed instance generator that periodically updates instance stats. It’s working great, but the commit history is going to get cluttered with dozens of “auto-update stats” bot commits. I’d ideally like my git log to show only real code changes—not these automated data commits.

Is there a way to keep the commits in the repo (for deployment/sync purposes) but prevent them from appearing in the default history view? Maybe a special branch, a secondary repo, or some Git trick I’m missing?

Thanks for any ideas!

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