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

I had the same exact problem, turns out it is because the email on my local git does not match the email on my GitHub account.

To update the email on your local machine:

git config --global user.email "your.email@email.com"

Verify that all your commits are updated on your github, if not you can check individual commits to see what email the commit is associated with by clicking on the commit and adding ".patch" to the end of the commit url like this:

https://github.com/username/repoName/commit/9fbe83f71cfc3503.patch

Now all you have to do is add that email you see to your account.(It does not need to be verified)

Check the commit again and you should see your username and credited :)