Contributions overcounted because of rewriting history -- any way to reset them without deleting/recreating repo?

[chriskorosu]

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The number of contributions displayed on my profile and my Github activity chart is incorrect. Currently they are being over-counted by quite a bit. I did some testing to figure out why that might be, and it seems to be caused by rewriting history.

For example if I push a commit to Github, then I revert or amend it locally and force push the new commit, Github will count both pushes as 1 contribution, even though the commit history will only show the last commit. (I know, I know, you're not supposed to force push/rewrite history, but I'm only doing this on private repos with me as the sole contributor).

One workaround I've found is deleting the repository (which removes all contributions associated with the repo), and recreating it from scratch (which generates a new number of contributions based on the number of commits in the repo).

I was wondering if anyone knows a way to reset the number of contributions WITHOUT deleting the repository?

Thanks,

Chris

[roma-marshall]

You can make the repository private, then all the history will disappear, but the non-pository will only remain available to you. This is the only way to remove history without removing the repository.

[chriskorosu]

I don't want the contributions to disappear, I just want them to reset to reflect commit count. So this doesn't solve my issue. Thanks for trying tho.

[roma-marshall]

Unfortunately what you want to do is currently not possible. There is no direct way to reset the number of contributions shown in your GitHub profile without deleting the repository. The number of contributions is calculated based on commit history and cannot be changed or reset manually in the GitHub UI.

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[sshmaxime]

This is pretty frightening but the solution is to:

1. Clone the repository if you haven't done it yet
2. Delete the repository on GitHub
3. Recreate the repository on Github
4. Go into the clone repository and run git push

It worked for me.