I switched username and lost association with previous commits

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Well... This happened a while ago, but I'm only realizing the impact now. I had my GitHub account long before 2017, back when GitHub's noreply email only contained your username. Recently, I changed my username to YesYouKenSpace because I thought it suited my personal brand better than kennethtxytqw. While checking some repositories' contributions (yes, I was stroking my own ego), I discovered something shocking—I had no commits showing before October 2024! This seemed impossible since I'd been working on these repositories for years.

Example of what I saw and got a shock from.

I was panicking, of course. After all, my very self-esteem is built on these little graphs! While scrolling around, I found my old username still having its own contribution panel, but with no profile picture...

Wait a minute—why do I have two panels? Then I recalled reading something along the lines of "...those commits will not be associated with your account..." when I was changing my username.

Setting your commit email address - GitHub Docs

You can set the email address that is used to author commits on GitHub and on your computer.

https://arc.net/l/quote/duktntuy

Gosh... I forgot that I didn't always use my personal email for my git commits...

To salvage the situation—and because I'm still pretty stubborn about keeping my new username—I created another GitHub account to reclaim my old username. So now I have two usernames...