Contribution graph still counts unreachable commits after history rewrites

[paulomatheuz]

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Bug

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Hello GitHub Community,

My profile contribution graph is still counting commits from old, unreachable histories after the history of one repository was accidentally rewritten multiple times.

Profile: https://github.com/paulomatheuz
Repository: https://github.com/paulomatheuz/fundamentos-python
Default branch: main
Current main tip: 8d7d91a307f046c9448ba01b62abcbd955c07a65

The repository history has now been repaired and verified:

• main contains exactly 39 reachable commits
• the original 37-commit chain is preserved through d3e5e0ad6bd276deab40ed6784328e3432c2946b
• only two commits follow that original chain
• the repository has one branch and one tag
• no unwanted chore: commits remain
• the final tree and file contents were preserved

However, my September 2026 profile activity still attributes 120 commits to fundamentos-python, even though the corrected main branch contains only 29 commits dated in September.

Current incorrect contribution-calendar cells:

• September 5: 50 contributions; expected 17 total (11 from this repository)
• September 6: 56 contributions; expected 14 total
• September 7: 23 contributions; expected 17 total (2 from this repository)
• September 9: 14 contributions; expected 3 total (2 from this repository)

The totals remained incorrect after waiting more than 24 hours following earlier rewrites. The final clean repair was force-pushed on September 11, 2026.

Previous tips that are now unreachable from the repository's current refs:

• 329d59bc5aab01a349074fa08627fe48abb6aa8d
• e1636d1db6f89f2b1055d594316a9c6e739d6f9c
• 7f0f66b696e4bb7de0f6674a97f74eca51f9ba2f

I submitted GitHub Support ticket #4749673 requesting a manual contribution-graph rebuild, but it was closed because my account currently has access only to self-service support resources.

Is there a supported way to have the profile contribution index recalculated so only commits reachable from the current default branch are counted? If GitHub staff see this, could this account/repository be reindexed or routed to the appropriate team?

Thank you.

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