Historical contributions still missing after verified email transfer; new commits count correctly

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My account is gelatoni-xh. On the afternoon of October 31, 2026 (UTC+8), I finished adding and verifying the email used by my older commits on this account after moving it from another account. More than two days later, many historical contributions are still missing, although commit authors now correctly resolve to my current account and new contributions are being counted.

I checked the following:

• The exact historical author email is listed as verified on my current account. I am omitting the email itself from this public report.
• The affected public repositories are owned by this account, are not forks, and use main as their default branch.
• The commits are reachable from main, and the REST commit API resolves their author.login to gelatoni-xh.
• I checked both the public contribution calendar and the GraphQL contribution collection, so this does not appear to be a local browser display issue.

One public example: tasuki-keifu commit 06b1a737. Its author and committer timestamps are both 2026-08-18T16:32:23Z; neither August 18 nor August 19 currently shows contributions on my public calendar. The repository has 115 commits dated in 2026 on its default branch, but GraphQL currently reports only one commit contribution for it, from a new November commit. I recognize that raw history counts are not by themselves a guarantee of contribution eligibility.

A controlled refresh test did not restore history: I pushed one empty commit to the default branch of my profile repository on November 2 (UTC). That commit is now counted, but the previous 11 commits in the same repository are still absent from its 2026 commit contribution count. I have not yet waited a full 24 hours after that test; the email association itself has been in place for more than two days. Some other commits using the same historical email are already counted, so the email is not uniformly unrecognized.

I have already opened a Support ticket. The initial reply directed me to the self-service support options available to my account; I followed up, but I do not yet have a confirmed resolution. I have not rewritten history or repeatedly removed/re-added the email.

This seems similar to discussion #211738. Is there an officially supported way to request or trigger a historical contribution rebuild after an email transfer, once author attribution is correct but the contribution calendar remains incomplete? Is there any additional diagnostic evidence that would distinguish an expected delay from incomplete re-indexing?

I would appreciate guidance that preserves existing commit history. Thank you.

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