Remove commit from Contribution History

[ferrondw]

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I was committing into a repository, and saw you could add a date, to be funny I put in January 4th, 1990. Funny as it may be, I did not want this on my contributions page. So I deleted the repo and re-uploaded it, the commit is gone from the contributions page, but the years all the way back to 1990 are still on it? How can I make it so it only shows the year from my first commit?

[RishavKumarSinha]

The best I could suggest, is opening a ticket to GitHub Support and explain them the issue clearly.

[davevad93]

Hi @ferrondw ,

The contribution graph starts from the year in which a user makes the first contribution, which usually corresponds to the day of joining GitHub. The issue is that, by adding that date to the commit, it technically counts as your first contribution, so now your contribution graph starts in 1990.

Try contacting support by opening a ticket here, select Other and explain your problem with the contribution graph, maybe they can fix it.

[ferrondw]

Thanks! Making it now...

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[jm-janzen]

If you don't mind going all scorched earth, you can always delete the repository and recreate it again without the commit. Obviously don't do this if many people are relying on your repository, but that'll get rid of the pesky commit.