👩‍🚀 Profile - October 2025 Check-in (Halloween Special 🎃)

[mecodeatlas]

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We’ve got a few Profile treats for you this month! 🍭

Catch up on community highlights, explore new guides, and find quick tips to make your profile even stronger.

✨ Community Highlights

This month, @AlbertoSRQ opened Remove all traces commits, asking how to fully remove commit history from a repository.

@AliMahmoudDev shared a detailed and practical answer - explaining when rewriting history is safe, and how to use git filter-repo to clean up old commits without breaking your repo.

It’s a great reminder that clear, technical answers can help others avoid headaches down the line.

🆕 New Content: Your Profile Guides

We’ve launched a new set of resources to help you understand and manage how your profile represents your work on GitHub:

• Your GitHub Profile Guides: Achievements, Contributions & More - A hub connecting all related profile guides.
• All You Need To Know About GitHub Achievements - Learn how badges work and why some may not unlock.
• Understanding Your Contribution Graph - Find out what counts toward your green squares (and what doesn’t).

⬆️ Level Up: Sharpen Your Profile Skills

Achievements, green squares, and profile updates kept the community busy this month.

Sharpen your Profile skills with a few reads that go beyond the basics.

• Managing contribution settings on your profile - Learn what counts toward your green squares and how private activity is handled.
• Managing your profile README - Tips to make your README reflect your work, goals, and interests.
• Private contributions and achievements - Understand how visibility settings affect what appears on your profile.

Now, if you want to go from “basics” to “Profile Pro,” GitHub Docs has a dedicated page that brings together everything you need to know about managing your account and profile.

From customizing your README to fixing missing contributions or changing your username, this page is a one-stop shop for all the practical how-tos you might need.

• More info 👉 How-tos for your GitHub account and profile

Thanks for sharing, helping, and making the Profile category such a great place to learn from each other.

See you in November with more highlights and ideas to explore.

[iamhmh]

Just joined the October check-in. This month I worked on improving my GitHub profile and pushing more meaningful projects publicly. I’m currently experimenting with computer-vision models and automated workflows, so this check-in comes at the right time — the new profile guides are actually helpful.
Looking forward to the next updates and seeing what others are building.
You can check my profile here : https://github.com/iamhmh