Why Your GitHub Contributions Aren’t Showing and How to Fix It

Sometimes after pushing code the small green square on your GitHub profile does not increase, which is usually caused by a mismatch between the email/username configured in Git and the one associated with your GitHub account.

Solution 🎉

There are two simple ways to fix the issue:

Modify the global Git configuration:

git config --global user.name "ordinaryA"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Using the --global flag changes the default name and email for all repositories on this machine; you can also set a different name/email for a single repository.

Modify the configuration of a single repository:

cd .git
git config user.name "ordinaryA"
git config user.email "[email protected]"

After updating the configuration, new commits will show the green square on GitHub.

To make past commits display correctly, rewrite the history to replace the old email with the correct one:

#!/bin/sh

git filter-branch --env-filter '
OLD_EMAIL="[email protected]"
CORRECT_NAME="ordinaryA"
CORRECT_EMAIL="[email protected]"

if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
    export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
    export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
if [ "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" = "$OLD_EMAIL" ]
then
    export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="$CORRECT_NAME"
    export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$CORRECT_EMAIL"
fi
' --tag-name-filter cat -- --branches --tags

Replace OLD_EMAIL with the email used in the old commits, and set CORRECT_NAME and CORRECT_EMAIL to your GitHub name and email.

Run the script, then verify the changes with git log. Finally, force‑push the rewritten history: git push origin --force --all After these steps the contribution graph on GitHub will correctly reflect both past and future commits.