Pull Shark Achievement Not Updating

[aakibpatel1112-stack]

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Hello GitHub Community,

My Pull Shark achievement was unlocked on November 10, but its history only displays one pull request: PORTFOLIO-AK#1.

I have several other merged pull requests, including PORTFOLIO-AK#2 through #7, but they are not appearing in my achievement history.

GitHub username: aakibpatel1112-stack

Could someone clarify why these merged pull requests are not reflected in my Pull Shark achievement?

Thank you

[100rootrain]

Nothing's missing here. The achievement History doesn't list every merged PR. It adds one line per tier, linking the PR that crossed that tier's threshold:

Tier	Merged PRs needed
Default (what you have)	2
Bronze (x2)	16
Silver (x3)	128
Gold (x4)	1024

Your line reads PORTFOLIO-AK#1 · 2nd pull request merged. That means #1 was the PR that reached 2. PORTFOLIO-AK #2–#7 will never be listed there individually. The next line only appears when a PR becomes your 16th, and it will say "16th pull request merged".

How close you are. A search for your merged PRs returns exactly 16:

https://github.com/pulls?q=is:pr+author:aakibpatel1112-stack+is:merged

• 7 in kritikaaverse/Drishti (Nov 4–5)
• 7 in PORTFOLIO-AK
• 2 in jaikaran109/51_Web_Projects

The achievement's own count is lower than that, though. It calls PORTFOLIO-AK#1 your 2nd merged PR, but 7 of your Drishti PRs were merged before it, so at least 6 of those weren't counted. I can't tell which rule excludes them, because GitHub doesn't document how this achievement counts PRs. One guess: many of them are main ↔ branch back-merges and a revert, as are PORTFOLIO-AK #2–#5 (#3 and #5 change 0 files). Either way, Bronze is probably not one PR away.

Two more things:

• The count isn't updated at merge time. Your threshold was reached on Nov 5, but the tier unlocked on Nov 10. PORTFOLIO-AK #6 and #7 (merged today) may take a few days to be counted.
• The most reliable way to Bronze is PRs with real changes. Self-merged PRs can count; your PORTFOLIO-AK#1 did. But back-and-forth merges between branches don't seem to. PRs like your two in 51_Web_Projects, reviewed and merged by someone else, are the safest bet.

[aakibpatel1112-stack]

Thank you for analyzing my merged pull requests and explaining the Pull Shark tiers!

I understand now that the achievement history only shows milestone PRs, not every merged PR.

I'll focus on contributing meaningful code changes to external repositories and getting them reviewed and merged.

I appreciate your help!