Not showing as a contributor on GitHub

Question

I'm struggling to get GitHub to show my contributions to a project. It is not my repository, but other repositories I've contributed to do show up on my profile.

I've tested contributions to both shared and private repositories work. I've pushed from other projects and everything is working as expected. The patches from the non-working project and a working one, both show the same details. Any pushes to working projects show me as a contributor on both the repository and my personal profile.

git config --global user.email and git config --global user.name are both correct. The repository I am committing to shows me as the author, but not on my profile.

I'm a bit lost on what to do. Does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Sometime if you do fork, commit or merge in your branch, it still doesn't show your name in contributors. It may be due to email which you set on command line is not mentioned in your git profile. Following steps work for me.

1. go to https://github.com/settings/emails
2. Add your email to 'add Email address' option which is used on command line

Now check the contributors tab on project. It will start showing your contributions.

Answer 2

Github shows only the top 100 contributors for a project.

If there are more than 100, the other contributors beyond these top 100 are never shown.

Even if you set a date range and there are less than 100 contributors displayed for the selected period, the list still only contains contributors who are among the all-time top 100.