GitHub commits aren't recorded in the 'Your Contributions` calendar

Question

I\'ve been making continuous commits to my GitHub repos from my linux shell and they show up nicely on the website just as they should. The only problem is that \"Y

Answer 1

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I've just had a peek at your contributions for the GoTime2 repository and it seems that you've been pushing commits to the layout branch.

The reason why those contributions are not showing up is that we only track commit contributions when they are made to the repository's default branch or gh-pages branch:

https://help.github.com/articles/why-are-my-contributions-not-showing-up-on-my-profile#which-contributions-are-counted

Once your contributions are merged into the default or gh-pages, you will get credited for them on the date you authored them.

so in my case I had to merge my 'layout' branch with the 'master' branch to see the 'your contributions' show up in the calendar.