I'm digging up this ten-year-old message, because you may want to know that this solution no longer works: GitHub no longer shows your imported contributions in your starred repositories on your profile. This changed some time in April or May.
You can follow the conversation about it here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/128895 On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 at 22:06, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that > I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here. > > tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each > extension repo separately.) > > (Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?) > > ------- Forwarded message ------- > From: "Brian Levine" <[email protected]> (GitHub Staff) > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile > Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200 > > Hi Bartosz > > In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some > association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, > having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have > push permission, so we don't link you to the commit. > > The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - > along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll > see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution > credit for those commits. > > > Cheers > Brian > > > -- > Matma Rex -- Bartosz Dziewoński _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
