Repository homepage shows a stale contributor

[Jwz-git]

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Thanks. I completed the additional checks.

1. The remote repository advertises only HEAD and refs/heads/main. There are no other branches or tags:

7994f7cb83b22f949f0ef5178d9a07b54b79f108 HEAD
7994f7cb83b22f949f0ef5178d9a07b54b79f108 refs/heads/main

2. I checked all 29 reachable commits using their structured author,
   committer, and Co-authored-by fields. Every author and committer is
   Jwz-git, and there are no Claude or Anthropic co-author trailers.

3. The contributors API only returns Jwz-git with 29 contributions:
   https://api.github.com/repos/Jwz-git/my-knowledge-base/contributors

4. The Contributors graph only shows Jwz-git:
   https://github.com/Jwz-git/my-knowledge-base/graphs/contributors

5. I also tested the homepage contributor endpoint without being logged in:
   https://github.com/Jwz-git/my-knowledge-base/contributors_list?current_repository=my-knowledge-base&deferred=true

It still returns a contributor count of 2 and includes:
https://github.com/claude

Therefore, this is not a local browser cache issue.

6. A normal commit was pushed to the default branch on July 15, 2026:
   7994f7cb83b22f949f0ef5178d9a07b54b79f108

The homepage contributor list remained unchanged after that push.

Could this please be escalated to the GitHub team that can invalidate or
rebuild the repository homepage contributor-sidebar index?

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[xusnitdinov]

Based on the checks you already did, this looks less like a Git data problem and more like a stale UI/sidebar index on GitHub's side.

The evidence that points that way is:

• git ls-remote only shows HEAD and refs/heads/main
• the contributors API only returns Jwz-git
• the contributors graph only shows Jwz-git
• the unauthenticated contributors_list endpoint still shows github.com/claude

So the canonical contribution sources and the homepage sidebar disagree, which strongly suggests the homepage contributor list has stale cached/indexed data rather than there being an actual hidden ref or local browser cache issue.

At this point I do not think there is a repository-side fix left to try. I would open a GitHub Support ticket and include exactly the evidence you already gathered:

• repo URL
• git ls-remote output
• contributors API result
• contributors graph URL
• contributors_list endpoint result
• the commit SHA and date of the latest push to main

That gives Support what they need to invalidate or rebuild the repository homepage contributor index if it is stale.

Support:
https://support.github.com/