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How do I transfer contributions to another account #23075
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I am talking about the contributions that show up as a grid in my user profile. I have two accounts, one for work, one for personal use, and I want for my work account contributions to show on my personal account as well. The reason for that is because once I will not work for the current company anymore and they will close/delete my email, I will lose access to that account, I will be left with only my personal account, and it will appear as if I didn’t do any work, for future employers. How do I link the activity from one account to another, both being mine? One of them has as primary email my personal email, and the other has as primary email the email I was given from work. |
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just simply add the email tied to those commits in the other account, of course, it should be deleted first at the user that you want to abandon I’m not very sure when the company deleted your work email or whether you can still claim it, maybe you can ask here
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My company didn’t delete my email yet, but they will most likely do it once I stop working there in the future. So I need to first delete the work email from the work account, and add the work email into my personal account. I guess I will do that at the very end before resigning. What about when I’ll lose access to the work email though? What happens when they will eventually delete it? Will the contributions dissapear as well? |
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catalincatrina:
when you just lose the access, you can still add it unverified and the commits will be added
catalincatrina:
this is I’m not very sure of that’s why I said try asking it at contact https://support.github.com/contact/account or maybe some member of the GitHub Staff here knows the answer and will comment, |
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👋t3: @catalincatrina - was @jdevstatic able to assist here, if so don’t forget to mark their comments as the solution for any other users who may encounter this, thanks! |
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He definitely helped but there is still the edge case about what happens if my company will delete my email after I leave? will my commits / history/ contributions on the github account associated with that email, stay? |
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Thanks for asking: It doesn’t need to be a working email address, or to be verified, in order to match commits to your profile as contributions so they should stay. |
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why so many downvotes here? |
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it seems like maybe it doesn't work? |
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@jdevstatic I m stuck, how to remove the email address of the company from the company GitHub without adding another email address? what I understand from above is that in order to add my work email address to my personal Github account I have to remove it first from my work account. |
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You still can delete old GitHub account |
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Hi, I want to do this as well. How was this resolved? |
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@catalincatrina how do you solve this ? |
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I also wasn't able to get my activity by removing the email from my business account and adding it to my personal email. |
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@queenofcorgis, I've got the same issue as well please provide more clarity, my concerns are;
Anyone who's already done this please help, this is important! |
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Okay Let me check that But I'm pretty sure that it was associated with the email only. let me check once again. |
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@sumanabhi My contributions are also not reflecting up, did you found any solution? |
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@AnujCMD Not yet. I didn't find this solution working as well. because as soon you add some another email there in that work account then automatically all the commits got linked with that one. and that's the main reason that is not reflected in our current account. I guess it will only work if the work github account got deleted. |
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Hey , what was the final solution. when I try adding my email into my account it says already in use and when i try removing my email from the work git account it says needs at least one email. Will i have access to the private repos of my organization |
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@ALL I guess it is gonna work only in the case when your work account must be deleted. Even I tried all the above steps but nothing is working. I'm still open to get some concrete solutions around this. |
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The only solution is to add the work email (already associated with your commits) to your personal account. In order to achieve this you have to "free" your work email. You can do this simply by adding a new primary email to your work account and then deleting the one you were previously using. Now that this email is free, you can add it to your personal account. Oh and yes, the commits are the contributions. As long as your contributions are associated with the email you just moved, they will be updated on your personal account. Btw, I did it exactly for the same reason you are planning on doing it. |
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Hey , what was the final solution. when I try adding my email into my account it says already in use and when i try removing my email from the work git account it says needs at least one email. |
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I created a new github account using my work email, too. I was wondering if there is a period after deleting this account which will keep me from adding my work email to my personal account? |
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How long did it take for your contributions from the "work profile" to be shown on your "personal profile"? @catalincatrina |
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Any answer to this? I'm in the same boat. |
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I don't have them, I did set up my work email into my personal profile but no contributions. I don't think it works, maybe it will until I delete my work account, but I'm still working at the same company; my idea was to "merge" the two accounts into one, but no luck unfortunately |
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Hi, ping on this question? I've tried adding my work email to my personal github account after assigning my work account a temporary email, but I still don't see my work contributions showing up on my personal profile. |
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I was finally able to see my contributions after setting the "Include private contributions on my profile" to true. This works as long as the email with which you made contributions is set on your account and verified as well, so you will need to have access to that email to accept GitHub's verification email once you add it to your account. |
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Did anyone get this to work (e.g. get contributions to one personal account to accrue on one main personal account)? |
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Have you tried with this projects? |
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So here is the solution✨ (No workarounds)I have tried all the above solutions, but none worked for me. It definitely helped me understand the issue very well, I even contacted Github support to get more information on this issue. So, If you are a person who has work account and wants to transfer commits to personal account , this is my solution for you: The idea:You need to detach the work email from the work account, and attach it to your personal account. That is how you will be able to get your work contributions transferred to your personal account. How?Step 1: This can be done as follows:
Now your work email that has all your contributions is free!, so it can be linked to your personal account! Step 2
Congrats🎉, your contributions will now appear in the graph.👏🏻 If it didnt appear in graph.. then there is a high probability that Keep my email addresses private is checked. which means you set web-based Git operations (e.g. edits and merges) to be sent from github. But don't worry this is simple and easy to fix. Go to (Settings > Emails) , then uncheck Keep my email addresses private. Enjoy❤️ |
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As I understand it, this only works if you are actually leaving your company, right? Because I was searching for a solution that transfers my contributions from my work account to my personal account, however, I don't want to leave my company yet, so I want to keep the work email on the work account. This way, emails related to my work's GitHub reach my work email and not my personal email. 😿 Probably a nice feature for this cases would be to have one master account that gets all the contributions of the sub-accounts, since my company probably don't want to grant access to my personal github account to the company's repos. |
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The email trick isn't working for me. I've got my personal email and my work email added on both accounts and it didn't even complain about the email not being "free." I even tried setting them both to "primary" - no luck. |
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I was able to see my contributions after setting the "Include private contributions on my profile" to true. This works as long as the email with which you made contributions is set on your desired account and verified as well, so you will need to have access to that email to accept GitHub's verification email once you add it to your account. |
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Hey guys, just wanted to share yet another solution: https://github.com/xorrvin/gitoboros. Essentially it works the same way as other projects, but is available as a web version: https://gitoboros.xyz. Cheers! |
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Thanks for asking: It doesn’t need to be a working email address, or to be verified, in order to match commits to your profile as contributions so they should stay.