Not all my commits are considered as contributions

[guyco-redis]

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Hi!

I have many commits in a private repo, but I changed an email a few years ago.
Now both emails (old and new) appear in my profile, but it looks like there's a gap in the commits graph and some of my commits are not counted. Not sure why though, since all my commits I used one email, and it is an email that is verified and appears in my profile.
I have over 100 commits.

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[m6lvink]

Hey!

I actually ran into a very similar issue a while back. Here's what I found that worked for me, hope it helps:

1. Turn on private repo visibility
   Go to: Profile -> Customize your profile -> Include private contributions on my profile

2. Confirm commit authorship
   Run this command:
   git log --pretty=format:"%h %an <%ae>" | head -20
   This just checks that the email listed in your commits matches one of your verified GitHub emails which might give some insight.

3. Check repository access
   If the repository was made private, deleted, or you no longer have access to it, those commits will stop counting.

Hope this helps!

[LOCYZZ]

This usually happens when the commits were made using an email address that isn’t linked to your GitHub account at the time of the commit, even if it’s now verified.

To fix it, make sure both your old and new emails are listed and verified under Settings → Emails
. Then, verify that the email shown in your commits matches one of those addresses (git log can confirm this).

If the commits are in a private repository, they’ll only appear in your contributions graph if that repo belongs to an organization where your visibility is set to public.
You can check this under [Profile → Contributions → Private contributions].

After updating settings, the graph may take a few hours to refresh.

[guyco-redis]

it is really weird.
commit like this gets counted:

commit 26fe8e6af1b4bc07b3d3375be9cf978a7b58f4b5
Author: guyco <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Sep 16 11:46:42 2025 +0300

while commit like this isn't:

commit 73d032aca9e3061d0a1b55a12c901c3ec28dd799
Author: guyco <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Dec 7 10:10:45 2023 +0200

I can't see any difference between them.

I also have commits like this and I think they do get counted:

commit ea1c92231ce13afb0bfa9ed52d5314bf0af2e08d
Author: guyco <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Nov 21 11:14:10 2022 +0200

I have checked and "Include private contributions on my profile" is checked in my settings.
I have a hunch that somewhere when author changed from [email protected] to [email protected] it stopped counting, and starts again at some point, like shown in the graph (possibly because of an email address I added).

[conorheffron]

@guyco-redis

Note: I needed to ensure creating a merge commit when merging a pull request to show all commits as contributions. For example, a squash and merge reduces the number of contributions to one commit/contribution.

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