Stale Contributors sidebar remains after history cleanup

[Zer0Qing]

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Hello GitHub Community,

I am the owner of https://github.com/Zer0Qing/Muse. The repository homepage sidebar still shows stale contributor entries even though the current repository statistics are correct.

Current state:

• The current default branch is main at 2e139ec4d0be2582c1f86e4fbebe7811a158e046.
• All commits reachable from main are authored under my Zer0 / Zer0Qing account.
• The REST contributors endpoint returns only Zer0Qing.
• Insights -> Contributors also shows only Zer0Qing.
• The homepage sidebar still shows “Contributors 4”: Zer0Qing, usehoplite[bot], Jolufa-UY, and joselofarias-byte.
• I performed hard refreshes and waited more than 24 hours.

The repository still has GitHub-managed pull request refs refs/pull/12/head and refs/pull/14/head. PR #14 was merged on 2026-11-11 and its historical head contains commits from usehoplite[bot] and joselofarias-byte. I am not asking GitHub to delete the pull requests or alter the public audit history; I am asking for the stale homepage contributor statistics/sidebar cache to be refreshed.

I opened GitHub Support ticket #4998766, but it was automatically closed because my account only has self-service support. Could a GitHub staff member or Community Manager manually refresh the contributor statistics for Zer0Qing/Muse, as was done in Discussions #205652 and #205703?

Thank you.

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[100rootrain]

Good news: the branch switch you did right after posting seems to have worked already.

What the sidebar shows now. Your activity log shows the switch between 06:22 and 06:24 UTC: you created main-contributor-refresh-20261113, deleted and recreated main, and deleted the temporary branch. At 06:33 UTC, the homepage's Contributors data (https://github.com/Zer0Qing/Muse/_sidebar) lists only Zer0Qing. The other three entries are gone from the list. Only contributorCount still says 4.

I saw exactly this pattern yesterday on another repository with the same problem (#212972):

1. After a default-branch switch, the stale entry dropped out of the list first, while the count stayed at 3.
2. Less than 9 hours later, the count had caught up as well. That repository now shows 1.

So yours will most likely settle on its own within hours. Check later in a private window, so you aren't looking at a cached page.

Where the 4 came from. I checked the history to make sure nothing else still holds those entries:

• main has 1,515 commits, all by Zer0 / Zer0Qing, with no Co-authored-by trailers. The tags and feat/sensevoice-local-asr don't add anyone else either.
• All three other entries come only from PR Images in readme are not resizing on the mobile app #14's commits:
  • 30d61b7e and 31a843cf were authored by usehoplite[bot].
  • d4aa2116 was authored by joselofarias-byte.
  • Two of these commits carry a Co-authored-by: José Luis Farías trailer. That trailer is presumably why Jolufa-UY appeared: the REST API never counts trailers, but the sidebar does.
• refs/pull/14/head still points to those commits. But the refreshed list already leaves them out, so the PR refs aren't what kept them there. You don't need them removed.

Two notes for next time:

• Switching the default branch away and back is enough. You don't need to delete and recreate main.
• If the count still says 4 tomorrow, add a short update here saying the list is already correct and only the number is stale. Since your Support ticket was auto-closed, this thread is your remaining route. Staff did refresh repositories on request in Stale contributor still displayed after history rewrite and force-push #205652 and Contributor graph remains stale after history rewrite #205703, though later replies in those threads didn't get the same.