Historical contributions missing after email change

[malaika-aiman]

Hello everyone,

My GitHub contribution graph previously showed around 104 contributions, but after changing my username and email settings, it dropped to 29.

I have re-added and verified my original email address. I also checked the email shown in my old commit's ".patch" file, and it matches my verified email. More than three days have passed, but my historical contributions have not returned.

My repositories and code are still available. GitHub Support closed my ticket (4849249) and directed me to Community Discussions.

I checked the author email in my old commit's ".patch" file, and it matches my verified email address. However, my historical contributions have still not been restored.

Could someone please help me identify why my historical contributions are still missing?

Username: malaika-aiman
Affected repository: CS-201-project

Thank you!

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[kittimzhe]

Your setup is right, and a 3-day wait is past the normal re-association window — so the remaining suspects are the ones a .patch file can't show you:

1. The .patch only reveals the author email. Every commit carries two addresses — author and committer — and attribution needs both linked. If your git config changed at any point while those commits were made (or a rebase/merge rewrote them), the committer email can differ from the author's even when the patch looks correct. Check on the old repos:

git log --format='%h %ae %ce' --all

Any committer address (%ce) that isn't attached to your account is your missing ~75 contributions. Add that address too and the graph re-links.

2. If any commits used your account's noreply address, the username change matters. The noreply format is ID+username@users.noreply.github.com — attribution is supposed to follow the ID part across renames, but open one such commit on github.com and check whether it still renders as linked to you. If it doesn't, that's a support-fixable attribution break, not something email settings can repair.

3. Default-branch requirement: contributions only count commits reachable from the default branch (or gh-pages). If part of the lost 75 lived on branches that aren't the default, they won't return regardless of emails.

Also worth knowing: profile data itself is lagging platform-wide right now — the umbrella incident thread #203416 ("Profile rendering issues") has staff-confirmed multi-day delays in profile/achievement processing since late September, 115+ comments and counting. If the %ce check comes back clean, add your username and the 104→29 drop there — it's the aggregated pile staff are working through, and given Support redirected you here, that thread is currently the faster lane.