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Contributions visible on your profile

Your profile shows off your pinned repositories, Achievements, and a graph of your repository contributions over the past year.

Your contribution graph and Achievements show activity from public repositories. You can choose to show activity from both public and private repositories, with specific details of your activity in private repositories anonymized. For more information, see Showing your private contributions and achievements on your profile.

Note

Commits will only appear on your contributions calendar if the email address you used to author the commits is connected to your GitHub account. For more information, see Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?

This section displays your repositories with the most watchers. Once you pin repositories to your profile, this section will change to "Pinned."

Pinned

This section displays up to six public repositories or gists. Important details are listed for each of the items you've chosen to feature. For more information, see Pinning items to your profile.

Screenshot of the "Pinned repositories" section of a user's profile page.

Contributions calendar

Your contributions calendar shows a visual overview of your contribution activity.

Screenshot of the contributions graph on a user profile.

Activity overview

When you enable the activity overview section on your profile, viewers can see more information about the types of contributions you make and repositories you're most active in. A viewer can only see information in the activity overview about repositories they have read access to. Once enabled, a viewer can also filter your contribution graph and activity timeline for a specific organization. For more information, see Showing an overview of your activity on your profile.

Screenshot of the activity overview section of a user profile.

The organizations featured in the activity overview are prioritized according to how active you are in the organization. If you @mention an organization in your profile bio, and you’re an organization member, then that organization is prioritized first in the activity overview. For more information, see Basic writing and formatting syntax or Personalizing your profile.

Contribution activity

The contribution activity section includes a detailed timeline of your work, including commits you've made or co-authored, pull requests you've proposed, and issues you've opened.

Important moments, like the date you joined an organization, proposed your first pull request, or opened a high-profile issue, are highlighted in your contribution activity.

If you can't see certain events in your timeline, check to make sure you still have access to the organization or repository where the event happened.

Next steps

To learn the different ways to view your contributions, see Viewing contributions on your profile.

To learn what counts as a contribution, see Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?