Claude still appears as a contributor after removing co-authored commits (48+ hours)

[fdzfausto]

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I'm the owner of the repository:
https://github.com/fdzfausto/Grupo67

We recently rewrote our Git history to remove commits that included Claude (Anthropic) as a co-author.

We have verified that these commits are no longer part of the current main branch history. However, Claude still appears in the repository's Contributors graph, even after more than 48 hours.

We already contacted GitHub Support, but our ticket was automatically closed because our account only has access to self-service support resources.

We believe the repository's contributor statistics may be cached or outdated.

Could a GitHub staff member please help us refresh or rebuild the contributor statistics for this repository?

Contributors graph:
https://github.com/fdzfausto/Grupo67/graphs/contributors

[g4lb]

It is already refreshed: the graph data now lists only your 3 users. Reload the page without cache.

[fdzfausto]

Thank you for your help!

Unfortunately, Claude is still appearing as a contributor on our side, even after clearing the browser cache, performing a hard refresh, and checking in incognito mode.

Could you please check whether the repository's Contributors sidebar also needs to be refreshed?

Repository: https://github.com/fdzfausto/Grupo67

Thank you again!

[g4lb]

You are right, Try the default branch rename from @stevenGGG23 above.

[stevenGGG23]

Had the exact same thing happen. The API and Insights were clean, but the sidebar kept showing Copilot. Waiting didn’t help.

What fixed it for me was making GitHub recalculate the default branch:

Go to Settings → General → Default branch and rename main to something temporary, like main-temp.
Load the repo home page. The Contributors box should update.
Rename it back to main.

You’ll have to do this on each repo, but it only takes a minute, and you don’t need to delete or recreate anything.