Because Github (or maybe git) doesn't track the history of the file through all of the renames. It is only reporting the contributors of changes to the file at its current location. If you go back to the time just prior to the commit that renamed the file, you do show up in the list:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/f179ec92d8ddb0dc5f7445255022be5c4765a704/numpy/build_utils/src/apple_sgemv_fix.c On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why am I missing from the contributor hist here? > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/_ > build_utils/src/apple_sgemv_fix.c > > > Sturla > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Robert Kern
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