Recently I've started a new open source android project on GitHub (Open Weather App). One person forked the repository and made some changes, then he created a pull request and I accepted it by pressing this green button:
Everything worked just fine, the pull request was merged into master. However, the problem is that he did not appear in the contributors list. It still does say 1 contributor, which is me:
What could be the reason for him not to appear on the list, and how can I solve this issue?
I feel responsibility for him. I even added him to collaborators list, yet he still does not appear as a contributor.
At Contributions that are counted are 3 points listed which must be met by a contributor:
I checked your repo and the pull request and it seems like this point is not met:
The email address used for the commits is associated with your GitHub
account
Are you sure it is not described here?
Why are my contributions not showing up on my profile?
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I'm been working in a team of four. I'm in the collaborator list. I'm able to commit, push, send pull requests and merge in our repo. My teammates can see my changes, but everyone is on the contributor list except me.
I double checked my email address, make sure the email I used in my local setting is the same with my default email in the github account.
We have changed the owner of the project once, and I'm still using the old url. Is this the reason for that?
I found the github has a complex rule for you be considered as a contributor. Here's the doc of it.
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-contribution-settings-on-your-profile/why-are-my-contributions-not-showing-up-on-my-profile
You have to commit to the main/default branch or make pull requests. To commit into other branches won't count.
Also, to use the old project url is definately one problem. In the project insight, everyone's profile is linked with their username. While mine is only a username with no user icon.
I think I just accidentally hit into one of the corner cases, but I'm still very confused of this design pattern.
I've been invited to a repo by an organization for a take home interview project. I'm concerned that if I accept it that it will show up on the github feed and my coworkers are able to see it. Especially when I make commits and pull request. Is this true? Can it be prevented?
It will show up on your feed. (Kinda) It will say x contributions in private repositories. You can see an example below from my account:
People that do have view access or higher will see the repository and what you did, PRs, issues, etc.
I can't seemed to find this information anywhere, but just wanna ask that if you are a contributor of a project and you worked on it so you can see all of those contributions on the chart, but then for whatever reason the owner of the project removed you, do you lose all of those contributions? as in will those green contribution grids(the days you work on it) go back to grey?
No, the contributions are based on the commit email ID, and do not have anything to do with the corresponding GitHub account having access to the repository. GitHub attributes a commit to a particular account if the email ID used with the commit is registered under that account.
So, unless the email IDs of past commits are in some way changed later, the contributions will still be visible, as long as the repository is public.
This also works the other way around. Anyone can set any email ID in their git configuration while committing, so it is trivial to falsely attribute commits to someone else, when viewing the contribution chart in GitHub.
I'm building the Github PR comment to Travis build thing from my previous question (since it does not seem to exist), but I'm running into the problem:
Github sends a webhook call for Issue comments (which is how they call PR comments)
That comment payload has an issue object attached to it.
There is a lot of stuff in the issue but information about what branch the changes are in is not one of them.
I also don't see an obvious way of retrieving the branch.
Am I missing something here?
Turns out I wasn't missing anything, Github answered:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts -- I'll pass them along to the team
working on webhooks but I don't expect any changes here in the near
future. For now, for each pull request that's opened -- you can save
the head and base branch information on your end. Then, once you
receive an issue comment webhook delivery, you will know which pull
request and which branches it is about without needing to call the
API.
Does anyone know of a way in GitHub to see pull requests were I am mentioned and either I have not yet commented or commits have been added since I last commented?
If you watch a repository like this, you'll be notified by everything that happens on that particular repo:
New commits will appear on your on-site dashboard and comments on commits/issues/PRs (by the way "PR" stands for "Pull Request) as well as opened/closed/merged PRs and issues will come up both by e-mail and on your dashboard.