Unable to Pin Upstream Repositories Despite Having Contributed to Them

[donjuanplatinum]

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I'm having trouble pinning some public repositories that I have contributed to on my GitHub profile.

I have made contributions to these upstream repositories, but they do not appear to be available for pinning.

[shivanagendrakore]

You can pin repositories you have contributed to, not just ones you own — the picker hides them behind a filter, which is the usual reason contributed upstreams seem "unavailable":

1. On your profile, click Customize your pins above the Pinned/Popular repositories section.
2. In the dialog, check the Show filter: it can be set to show only repositories you own. Switch it to include repositories (and search by the full owner/repo name rather than just the repo name — with only six slots, owners with similar names are easy to miss).
3. Select up to six and Save. The steps are also in Pinning items to your profile.

If an upstream repo still does not appear even with the right filter, check how the contribution is recorded, because the picker follows your contribution graph:

• The contribution needs to be on the repository's default branch (a merged pull request, or commits merged there). Open PRs, forks, and issues alone do not make the repo pinnable.
• Commits must use an email address added to your GitHub account; commits under an unlinked email do not attach the repo to you.
• If the repo belongs to an organization with restricted visibility of membership/contributions, confirm your contribution is visible on your profile (private-contribution settings can hide it).

If you share one example repo (owner/name) and how you contributed (merged PR link is ideal), I can tell you which of these applies. If the repo shows in your contributions graph but never in the pin picker even by full-name search, that combination is worth a GitHub Support ticket as a picker bug.

[donjuanplatinum]

I contributed directly via commits, not pull requests.
This is the repo: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs.git
This is the commit url:emacs-mirror/emacs@c6e2bd3
I cant Pin this repo.

[jamalkamaladdin]

Fork emacs-mirror/emacs, then give your contribution graph up to 24 hours to refresh. Commits count only after you fork that repo, open issues or PRs there, or become its collaborator. Your commit c6e2bd3 is on master and linked to your account, so only that condition is missing.

Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/reference/profile-contributions-reference