Repository sidebar lists three contributors, but Insights shows one

[kalybajnursejt49-coder]

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My repository sidebar lists kalybajnursejt49-coder, project-contributor and codex. In Insights → Contributors, with the period set to All, only kalybajnursejt49-coder appears (23 commits).

Repository: https://github.com/kalybajnursejt49-coder/Salahuddin_project
Contributors graph: https://github.com/kalybajnursejt49-coder/Salahuddin_project/graphs/contributors

Do these views count contributors differently? If the sidebar is out of date, is there a supported way to refresh it without rewriting the repository history?

[100rootrain]

Yes, they're computed separately, and your sidebar is out of date. Insights and the API (/contributors) are calculated from the current history, and that history is clean: every commit on master and assignment-4-5 is authored by you, and so is the midterm tag. The homepage Contributors box is cached on its own, and it isn't recalculated after a force push. Its data (/_sidebar) still reports contributorCount: 3.

Where the two extra entries come from. Your repo's activity log shows the history being rewritten on Nov 2:

Time (UTC)	Branch	What the replaced commits were attributed to
Nov 2, 12:19	master	Codex <codex@users.noreply.github.com>: 4 commits, e.g. 5dafe3b5, 7fc95e74
Nov 2, 12:31	master	Project contributor <project-contributor@users.noreply.github.com>: 5 commits from the first rewrite, e.g. 6aab8fba
Nov 2, 12:31	assignment-4-5	Codex: c045dd91, 3ebcbc01

The project-contributor commits were only on master for 12 minutes. The sidebar still lists them, which shows it's a stale snapshot and not a count of your current history.

How to refresh it without rewriting anything: switch the default branch away and back. This fixed the same problem in #212678 yesterday.

1. Settings → General → Default branch: switch to assignment-4-5. Its history is clean too.
2. Open the repository homepage once, wait a couple of minutes, then switch the default branch back to master.

If the entries are still there a day later, only GitHub can purge the cache. #204093 collects reports of this exact issue.

Two things worth knowing:

• <name>@users.noreply.github.com belongs to the account called <name>. GitHub attributes a commit with that email to the user with that login. That's why these commits showed up as two real accounts: codex and project-contributor. project-contributor is an unrelated person's account from 2016. So don't use a made-up noreply address as a placeholder when you rewrite authors. Use your own email, or your own noreply address in the form ID+username@users.noreply.github.com, which you'll find under Settings → Emails.
• PR Welcome to GitHub product feedback #1 still shows the original commits. GitHub keeps refs/pull/1/head, which points at 3ebcbc01, so the Commits tab of PR Welcome to GitHub product feedback #1 still lists the Codex commits. This doesn't affect the sidebar fix, and you can't change it yourself. If you want those commits gone from public view too, GitHub Support can remove the pull request ref.