Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@madeso

madeso/github-contributors-issue.md

Created July 2, 2020 13:09
Show Gist options
  • Star 0 You must be signed in to star a gist
  • Fork 0 You must be signed in to fork a gist
  • Save madeso/779c820cc1b5b10b75156b176d36f664 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save madeso/779c820cc1b5b10b75156b176d36f664 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP
Github contributors issue
Raw
github-contributors-issue.md

Hello,

For some of my repos, there are contributors listed on the repo main page (Code) that according to insights/contributions aren't contributors.

Examples repos

https://github.com/madeso/dotfiles https://github.com/madeso/PrettyGood.net https://github.com/madeso/euphoria

Background

I know the offending user (my work account), that I sometimes erroneously commited with, so I used filter-branch to remove him from the git log. However that was a while ago, and the contributors on the main page still hasn't been updated.

Workaround

After a week (I guess), out of despair, I pushed one of my smaller repos (1 branch, 64 commits total, no issues etc) to a new repo and it only contains 1 contributor as expected: https://github.com/madeso/PrettyGood.net -> https://github.com/madeso/pgnet

This works, but for other repos that have stars, watches, several branches etc this doesn't work.

Questions

So, that leads me to wondering two things:

  1. How often is the main page contributors updated?
  2. Is it based anything more than the insights/contributions that the header links to?
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment