How to view GitHub Contributors Graph for branches other than master?

At https://github.com/yourusername/yourreponame/graphs you can find some nice graphs showing commits over time. However the information is only for the master branch.

How do I see the same information for a branch other than master, or see a graphs taking account commits across all branches?

If this is not possible, how can I at least see how many line of code have been committed under a particular branch via the GitHub web GUI?

Is any of this possible?

Solution 1:

I just stumble on this as well. You can actually see the graphs for other branches than the Master branch.

• On Github in your repo - choose settings.
• In settings - change your default branch to whatever branch you would like to see the graphs for.

Solution 2:

The help of Github: Viewing contributions :

Whenever you commit to a project's default branch (or the gh-pages branch), open an issue, or propose a Pull Request, we count that as a contribution.

So:

• default branch
• gh-pages branch
• open an issue
• pull request

only these will be counted.

As @Mikael 's answer, you can change the default branch in repo's settings.

Another help of Github: Which contributions are counted?

For commit:

Your commit contributions are only counted when they are created on or merged into the default branch or gh-pages branch of a non-fork repository.

I also want github to count all the commits, not specified branch :(

Solution 3:

From what I can see, those graphs are for master only: I only committed on the branch gitlist recently, and my commit activity only shows those for master.

Unless you rebase your branch on top of a new repo you would create specifically for that kind of inspection, said branch activity won't be visible until it is merged back in master.