Repository shows contributor but it hasn't any contributor

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#1

Hello dear GitHub-Community.
This is my first question in this forum and I generally don’t work with GitHub that often so please keep that in mind.

I have a question regarding one of my repositories (https://github.com/SchnoppDog/piano-led). On the right side with the headline ‘Contributors’ are 2 named. One Contributor is of course myself, but the other listed contributor is someone I don’t know. I tried to find out what he contributed to my code but there wasn’t any commit whatsoever by him. Maybe you can tell me how someone can be a contributor if he/she never contributed anything to my code.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards.

#2

It’s because you made commits with a generic account at some point and that user has said generic email associated with their account.

  1. Goto the insights tab in your repo: https://github.com/SchnoppDog/piano-led/pulse
  2. Then the contributors tab: https://github.com/SchnoppDog/piano-led/graphs/contributors
  3. Click “11 commits” under fuzzy12.
  4. You’ll see 11 commits to the github-release branch: https://github.com/SchnoppDog/piano-led/commits?author=fuzzy12
  5. Look at one of those: https://github.com/SchnoppDog/piano-led/commit/e056f516636c808d855f6f938f353840e05b5aaf
  6. Goto the .patch for that commit: https://github.com/SchnoppDog/piano-led/commit/e056f516636c808d855f6f938f353840e05b5aaf.patch
  7. Note the contributor: From: RasPi <pi@raspberry.com>.

You’d have to rewrite the history of your repo and reset the author on those commits for it to properly show as you. Of course you could add pi@raspberry.com as one of your email addresses but then you’ll likely have the inverse problem (things will be attributed to you that likely aren’t you).

Edit: You can search for how to docs on resetting it. Here’s one decent example that also links to some other details as well: https://dev.to/chrisvasqm/how-to-change-the-author-of-all-your-commits-2j7a .

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#3

Wow I didn’t know that. Thank you very much for the help. I appreciate it. I am going to read me into that.

Have a nice day.