Stale Claude contributor on repository homepage after rewriting history

[sasu3303]

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Repository: https://github.com/anurag-reddy1/PeerTask

The repository homepage “Contributors” sidebar still shows “claude” after we removed every Claude Co-authored-by trailer from all reachable branches.

We rewrote the affected commits and force-pushed the cleaned histories. Insights → Contributors has refreshed correctly and shows only the two human contributors:

• anurag-reddy1
• sasu3303

However, the main repository page still lists Claude in the contributor sidebar. This appears to be stale repository metadata/cache.

Is there any way to have the homepage contributor sidebar re-indexed or refreshed? I have screenshots showing the mismatch.

[m4gester-bitt]

Hey @sasu3303 This sounds like stale GitHub indexing rather than anything still present in the repository.

The homepage Contributors sidebar and Insights → Contributors don't appear to be driven by exactly the same data. If Insights has already updated to show only the two human contributors, but the homepage still lists Claude, then the Git history is probably already correct and the sidebar cache just hasn't caught up.

I'd double-check that:

• git log --all --grep="Co-authored-by" returns nothing.
• git shortlog -sne --all only lists the expected contributors.
• Every reachable branch (including any default or long-lived branches) was rewritten and force-pushed.

If all of those check out, I don't think there's anything else you can do from the Git side. I'd either wait for GitHub's background indexing to refresh or open a GitHub Support ticket with screenshots showing the mismatch between the homepage sidebar and Insights.

[sasu3303]

I completed the requested checks:

• git log --all --grep="Co-authored-by" returns no output.
• git shortlog -sne --all lists only the two expected human contributors: sasu3303 and Anurag Reddy.
• Insights → Contributors also lists only those two accounts.

The Git history is clean. The remaining Claude entry is limited to the repository homepage Contributors sidebar, so it appears to be stale GitHub indexing/cache.