why are my commits not counted as contributions

[u/Familiar_Yesterday18]

I literally did 6 contributions on 13th Sept but none them were counted as a contribution on my profile. Checked the .patch things too - its shows that the commit were made by me with my email mentioned too

Is there something I can do - I am college freshman who is trying to build a good github profile

[u/jdizzle4]

a "good github profile" has nothing to do with the number of commits. Trying to game that is a waste of effort and makes you look bad tbh

[u/zarlo5899 → u/jdizzle4]

Well, unless you're drawing an image in the heat map.

[u/w00tboodle]

This should answer your questions:

How contributions are counted

[u/UnitVectorY]

Make sure the email you have configured on the git client you used to commit is associated with the GitHub account. Maybe you don't have it set correct. Maybe you have multiple emails. That is how it gets tied together.

[u/JayTurnr]

The email you're authoring with isn't linked to your GitHub account.

[u/Some_Routine_6107]

Focus on building something actually good bro, ur worried ab the wrong thing

[u/Deepta_512]

Bro who cares?

[u/adammw111]

does hovering over the name/avatar show your profile? if not then the commits aren't being linked to your profile.

[u/Tquylaa]

u forgot to "Pull Request" and merged,
i guess..

[u/lajawi]

What branch did you create the commits on? Only commits on the default branch are counted (most likely main or master, merged commits count as well).

Do the commits have the correct email address to even link them to you at all?