Where are my commits?

In August I have been very busy coding as a part of S2DS but none of my hard work shown on my GitHub contribution panel. Initially I assumed this is because I used private repo. Then I realised that Lin’s commits are showing on hers. I needed to investigate.

Error was on my command line side. I commit using command line, as I find it much faster. In order to keep those commits in sync with your GitHub account your email address must match. If you followed GitHub advice on keeping email private then all you need to do is, in command line:

git config --global user.email "your_email@users.noreply.github.com"
git config --global user.email

You can also set up specific email for single repository, according to help page.

##Side note about Git

Git is one of the most amazing tools I know. Lin have already reported on her experience with it. I used for a while, yet, only proper group experience made me truly appreciate its power. Recently I found two good blogs explaining the basics:

• if you never used it, try this page
• if you want to learn more about team work in git, try this intro

I can only recommend trying. You will love it. And remember, commit before you pull, or at least stash.