Lost commit history (graph) when merging two accounts #44095
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When you merge two Github accounts, the commit history is not automatically moved. The commits are linked to the email address and not the Github account, so when you change the association of an email address from one account to another, the commit history will not be transferred. One way to regain the commit history is to use the |
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I followed this guide https://scottmathson.com/blog/2019/02/13/combine-merge-github-user-accounts-keeping-git-commit-history/ to merge my work and private github account.
From what I understand any commit made is linked to the email address and not the github account itself.
I seem to have lost all commit history made by my work email when I connected it to my private account.
Might be because of a "stale-cache" according to this comment: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15290899
Any ideas what I can do to get all my historically made commits?
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