I'm digging up this ten-year-old message, because you may want to know that this solution no longer works: GitHub no longer shows your imported contributions in your starred repositories on your profile. This changed some time in April or May.
You can follow the conversation about it here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/128895
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 at 22:06, Bartosz Dziewoński matma.rex@gmail.com wrote:
I know it has been annoying a couple of people other than me, so now that I've learned how to make it work I'll share the knowledge here.
tl;dr: Star the repositories. No, seriously. (And yes, you need to star each extension repo separately.)
(Is there a place on mw.org to put this tidbit on?)
------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Brian Levine" support@github.com (GitHub Staff) To: matma.rex@gmail.com Cc: Subject: Re: Commits in mirrored repositories not showing up on my profile Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 06:47:19 +0200
Hi Bartosz
In order to link your commits to your GitHub account, you need to have some association with the repository other than authoring the commit. Usually, having push access gives you that connection. In this case, you don't have push permission, so we don't link you to the commit.
The easy solution here is for you to star the repository. If you star it - along with the other repositories that are giving you this problem - we'll see that you're connected to the repository and you'll get contribution credit for those commits.
Cheers Brian
-- Matma Rex