Private repository commits missing from contribution graph despite meeting requirements

[hitctc]

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Bug

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Profile

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My contribution graph is missing a large number of commits from a private repository, even though the commits appear to meet GitHub's documented contribution requirements.

GitHub Support directed me to Community Discussions because my current support plan does not include technical support.

What I have already verified

• The repository is private and is not a fork.
• Private contributions are enabled on my profile.
• The repository's default branch is main.
• The affected commits are present on the remote main branch.
• The commits were authored using two email addresses.
• Both email addresses are verified and associated with my GitHub account.
• I confirmed that the author email stored in the affected commits exactly matches one of those verified addresses.
• More than 24 hours have passed since I added the historical email address.

Commit statistics

For the last year, the current origin/main history contains:

• 577 commits using verified email A
• 35 commits using verified email B
• 612 commits total

However, my profile currently shows only 107 contributions.

Before adding the historical email address, it showed 42 contributions. After adding and verifying that email, the count increased from 42 to 107, so GitHub appears to have re-attributed some historical commits, but most qualifying commits are still missing.

Example affected date

On September 3, 2026, the current main history contains 37 commits.

I checked one of those commits and confirmed:

• Author and Committer are my Git identity.
• AuthorDate and CommitDate are both September 3, 2026.
• The commit is present on main.
• The author email matches one of the verified email addresses on my GitHub account.

Despite this, the contribution graph does not reflect the commits correctly.

I have already checked GitHub's documented contribution requirements and cannot identify any remaining condition that these commits fail to meet.

Has anyone encountered this before?

Is there any way to trigger a contribution attribution/index rebuild, or is this something only GitHub staff can correct on the backend?

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[hitctc]

One additional clarification:

my-nuxt-site is only one repository that I used as a fully verified example for troubleshooting.

I have commits across multiple repositories on this GitHub account, and I suspect the missing contribution attribution may not be limited to this single repository. I have not yet performed the same detailed commit-by-commit verification on every repository.

So if this turns out to require a re-index or rebuild, could GitHub staff please check the contribution attribution at the account/profile level, rather than only rebuilding contribution data for my-nuxt-site?

The repository in the original post should be treated as a reproducible example of the broader issue.