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

for me was the file within the project:

/.git/config

...
[user]
    name = your user
    email = user@host.com
...

Inside the block [user] double-check the 'email' is correct (mine was incorrect) and the name is unique (mine was duplicated).

To double-check with contributor is increasing use:

git shortlog -sn

make a push, check which one is increasing the counter and that name should be the name inside the block [user]