Contributions not showing on my GitHub profile after pushing code

[rdkolhatkar]

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Description of the issue
I’ve been pushing code to my repositories over the past 3 days, but my GitHub profile contributions graph still shows no activity. The “Include private contributions on my profile” setting is enabled. I’ve verified that the correct username and email are configured in my Git setup (git config --global user.email) and also confirmed that my email is linked to my GitHub account. Additionally, I signed out and signed back in, but the issue persists.

What I have checked so far

1. Verified I am pushing to the default branch (main/master).
2. Verified that commits are pushed successfully.
3. Checked git config user.name and git config user.email.
4. My email is verified on GitHub.
5. Contributions from private repos are enabled in settings.

Steps to reproduce

1. Push code to repo: git push origin main
2. Go to my GitHub profile contributions graph.
3. No activity is shown.

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[davevad93]

Hi @rdkolhatkar,

The last screenshot you posted clearly shows that those commits aren't linked to your account, but to a ghost username, indicating that there's a discrepancy with the email. In fact, I just checked your last commit in that repo, and that's the reason.

Last commit with the wrong username and email:

Last commit with the right username and email:

This usually happens when pushing from a different device or with different SSH keys so make sure your git config is correct. To fix your commits, you should amend them.

If you need to amend your email address in multiple commits or rewrite your entire commit history within a repo, you can do this by running the following script in your local repo. Replace "OLD_EMAIL" and "NEW_EMAIL" with the actual values, but do this only if you're the repo owner and the only contributor on it:

#!/bin/sh OLD_EMAIL="old_email" NEW_EMAIL="new_email" git filter-branch --env-filter 'OLD_EMAIL="'"$OLD_EMAIL"'"CORRECT_EMAIL="'"$NEW_EMAIL"'"if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]then export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"fiif [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]then export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"fi' --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags

Next, run git log to verify that the changes have been successfully made to your commit history and that only your email address has been changed, not those of other contributors.

Finally, force push the changes to your remote repo:

git push --force --all

Otherwise, if it's only a specific commit, you must identify the commit hash, and use git rebase, which is more tricky and "dangerous". Here's a comprehensive guide on how to do it. Before pushing your changes to the remote , first check that your local repo history hasn't been corrupted:

• How do you make changes on a specific commit

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