Contribution Activity not displaying on my profile (email config issue).

[budDemant]

I committed to this repo for several months. I recently noticed that:

1. I wasn't listed as a contributor
2. No commits related to this repo were displayed on my profile.

The reason I was not listed as a contributor was because I mistakenly configured the email in my text editor to my school email, not the email associated with my GitHub account. After re-configuring the correct email and pushing a commit, I was listed as a contributor with all of my past commits.

However, these old commits are still not reflected on my profile (just the one commit after re-configuration). Is there any way to fix this issue besides having to re-write history?

[gitUmaru]

One approach you can try is adding your school email to your GitHub account (under Settings > Emails), while keeping your main email as the primary. This should retroactively associate your previous commits with your GitHub profile, and they should appear correctly under your contributions after like an hour to a day.

[budDemant]

I should've mentioned that I already tried that (in addition to re-configuring the email in text editor), but thanks for the response.

[limitleslibrty]

I am facing the same issue, I've added the email also but I can't see my commits

[CLPolo]

Hey there,

I just ran into this myself. Here is what fixed it:

First, you need to change the email associated with your old commits with the correct email. This can be done with

  git filter-branch --env-filter '
      if test "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "root@localhost"
      then
              GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=john@example
      fi
      if test "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "root@localhost"
      then
              GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=john@example
      fi
      ' -- --all

Where you replace 'root@localhost' with the old email and john@example with the correct email (this was found here).

You can then push the changes with:

git push --force --tags origin 'refs/heads/*'

Which was found here

Hope that helps!

edited to add:

If you want to figure out what email was used in the old, inattributed commits, you can use git log --pretty=“format:%ae (which was found in the same article as the push command). Or, you can click on one of your old commits on github and add ".patch" to the end of the url as per this article

[budDemant]

I really was trying to avoid re-writing commit history, but it seems that this is the only way. Thank you for the answer.

[budDemant]

I was able to solve this issue without re-writing history of the original repository. I made a fork of the original repo, used the script from @CLPolo , and then detached the fork in order for the contributions to be shown on my profile.