Commiting to non master branch and the contribution calendar

Question

I have my own repository on github. And I noticed that some commits don't show in the contribution calendar when they aren't made to the master branch. I perceive this ridiculous and not making any sense. What if I commit to the develop branch and other ones and only sometimes merge the changes to master? The contribution calendar will be mostly white.

And I even didn't find any mention about this at github help.

Does this really work that way? Is there any logic in it?

Answer 1

Github does not display contributions to any other branches other than the default one (which doesn't have to be master).

So if you're contributing to a develop branch in any repo, you should see these on your profile if develop is set as the default branch in that repo.

See more details and all rules on the GitHub Help page.

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btw. the help page was just a click away from the profile page