Viewing a project's contributors

You can see who contributed commits to a repository and its dependencies.

Who can use this feature?

This repository insights graph is available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see "About repository graphs" and "GitHub’s plans."

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About contributors

Note: Certain contributor, commit, and code frequency insights are only available for repositories that have less than 10,000 commits.

You can view the top 100 contributors to a repository in the contributors graph. Merge commits and empty commits aren't counted as contributions for this graph.

You can also see a list of people who have contributed to the project's Python dependencies. To access this list of community contributors, visit https://github.com/REPO-OWNER/REPO-NAME/graphs/contributors.

Accessing the contributors graph

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.

  2. Under your repository name, click Insights.

    Screenshot of the main page of a repository. In the horizontal navigation bar, a tab, labeled with a graph icon and "Insights," is outlined in dark orange.

  3. In the left sidebar, click Contributors.

  4. Optionally, to view contributors during a specific time period, to the right of "Contributors," click Period: All. Then select a time period.

  5. Optionally, to view the graph as a table, in the top-right corner of the graph, click . Then click View as table.

  6. Optionally, to download a CSV or PNG, in the top-right corner of the graph, click . Then click Download CSV or Download PNG.

Troubleshooting contributors

If you don't appear in a repository's contributors graph, it may be because:

  • You aren't one of the top 100 contributors.
  • Your commits haven't been merged into the default branch.
  • The email address you used to author the commits isn't connected to your account on GitHub.

Tip: To list all commit contributors in a repository, see "REST API endpoints for repositories."

If all your commits in the repository are on non-default branches, you won't be in the contributors graph. For example, commits on the gh-pages branch aren't included in the graph unless gh-pages is the repository's default branch. To have your commits merged into the default branch, you can create a pull request. For more information, see "About pull requests."

If the email address you used to author the commits is not connected to your account on GitHub, your commits won't be linked to your account, and you won't appear in the contributors graph. For more information, see "Setting your commit email address" and "Adding an email address to your GitHub account."