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

so this usually happens due to a lot of factors, for which you must visit this GitHub help

The most common mistakes I found were :

1. Email not configured properly on local machine. (your laptop/pc).
2. Forking.
3. Not using default or gh-pages branch for commit.

I personally had issue 1 recently, for which I went to my terminal/cmd/cli and configure my email address locally by running this command

git config --global user.email yourname@email.address

Once that's done, try running this config again like this:

git config --global user.email

You should be able to see:

yourname@email.address

If this was correct, you have successfully configured your local machine with your global public repo. Now your next commit will be credited towards your calendar.