It’s been a graceful four days since starting one day one commit project. But something weird happen with yesterday commit data. I certainly updated a repo for github.io. I could see the record of it in the repo. However the commit wasn’t recording in the contribution table in overview page. This contribution table is everything about one day one commit, so I have to dig in to see what’s going wrong.

Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?

It doesn’t matter how to make contribution for active repository. Forking, coding, adding, committing and pulling with request… The master owner will check on that later. Or you can write issue or asking the owner join you as a collaborator. But these are for actual solution of team repo. (or open source) I’m in different situation. I just copied this beautiful theme repo to use as my github.io template. I’m not going to make real contribution for the repo. It’s read-only archived.

Make your forked repo to standalone repo

AKA make the forked repo to your own repository. This is the easiest way to fix contribution not showing problem. Thinking this as swap operation between repos!

clone the repo you want to use as github.io theme. (Do not fork) git clone git@github.com:USERNAME/REPO.git
Delete the repo in Remote Github (if you have one)
Create new repo in Github
change remote url in your local repo (you can skip this if the url already indicate your own github.io repo) how to check: git remote -v how to change: git remote set-url origin git@github.com:USERNAME/NEW_REPO.git
git push
😆 now you have standalone repo! peace of cake.

My problem was forking the repo at the very first time. Keep in mind cloning github.io repo to use! And normal purpose of repo is okay to fork for sure.

Reference

GitHub: make fork an “own project”