Historical contributions disappeared after deleting my old GitHub account #205035
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Short version: deleting the old account permanently breaks contribution attribution for commits that only matched that account, and adding the old address to the new account usually cannot fully repair it when the address is unverifiable. Why the graph droppedGitHub attributes commits by email ↔ account linkage at the time it indexes them:
Rewriting history ( What usually works / doesn’t
Practical path without rewrite
There isn’t a supported “restore deleted account contributions onto a new login” switch. Verification of a live author email is the only non-rewrite lever GitHub exposes. |
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Historical contributions disappeared after deleting my old GitHub account
My current GitHub username is asllyz26.
I previously had a GitHub account associated with the email [asllyz2610@gmail.com](mailto:asllyz2610@gmail.com). I deleted that account and created/continued using my current account.
I recently discovered that my contribution graph dropped from 500+ contributions to 114.
I checked my repositories and found approximately 330 commits authored with:
Aslly Zuñiga <asllyz2610@gmail.com>My current account also has commits using my GitHub noreply email:
126729392+AsllyZuniga@users.noreply.github.comI added
asllyz2610@gmail.comto my current account, but it remains Unverified because that email address no longer exists. More than 24 hours have passed, but the historical contributions have not returned.The commits still exist across multiple repositories. I would like to know if there is a way to restore the attribution of those historical commits to my current account without rewriting or modifying the existing repository history.
Has anyone experienced this situation after deleting an old GitHub account? Is there a recommended way to recover the historical contribution attribution?
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