Contributions to a public repository aren't tracked on my graph

[stefany-newman]

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The contributions graph isn't showing up any of my contributions lately, ever since I changed my primary email.

Repo.

Actions I have taken to fix the issue in vain:

• Setting up the global and local email and username - all return the same value as they are supposed to, git config user.email / user.username (same with -global)
• Scoured posts in the community here dealing with the issue - outputted commits to main, but they show the same email address

Interestingly, the line graph next to the repo shows activity, but not the graph itself.

Please help!

[xarical]

Hi there,

Looking at your commit history in your repo, it seems like GitHub doesn't recognize the new commits as made by you (assuming the commits on and after June 2 are the ones you're referring to as not showing up on your contributions? Please correct if wrong). If the email that made the commits don't match any of the emails in your GitHub settings, they wouldn't show in your contributions graph. The reason I suspect this is because the profile picture of all the new commits is the default gray GitHub logo profile picture, whereas the older ones have your profile picture as expected.

Would you please check the emails you have set in your GitHub settings (https://github.com/settings/emails)? I understand you said all you did was change your primary email; just in case, ensure the email you made the commits with is still there.

If all is as expected, I also noticed something when running git log on your repository; the commits that show up in GitHub properly are normal, but the ones that are bugged seem to have quotes around them? Double check your git config user.email to make sure it has no quotes. (Don't know if I should black out the name and email since technically this is public information to anyone that clones your repository, but I did it anyway)

If you come across any information that might help with discovering the root cause of your issue, please provide it.
Hope this helped!

[xarical]

I also wanted to note that you're exposing your email by using it as your user.email, and it might be safer to use your GitHub noreply email; though if I remember correctly GitHub would warn you about that when pushing and so you might know that already.

[stefany-newman]

@xarical, gosh, thank you so much for helping me! The issue was exactly as you said, those darn quotes around the email address - so while the address was correct in Github and local, I didn't think twice about the quotes. And the reason I wrote the quotes in, is cause I asked ChatGPT to give me the command to change my email address - and the darn thing told me to use the quotes!! Of course, it's my fault at the end, but darn it, everyone thinks ChatGPT will get us out of work, yet it can't even write a correct simple command line.

Email being public, it's my professional email, so I don't mind it, tho it might better if use noreply, I am just afraid of changing it now.

Thank you again!

[xarical]

I'm glad you were able to resolve the issue! Completely understandable what happened, and yeah ChatGPT still makes mistakes despite how much its improved.

Regarding the email address, if it's your professional email then I figure it should be fine, either way works. Happy to help!