Pair Extraordinaire achievement not granted after valid co-authored commit

[huseyinaydin99]

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Hello GitHub Support Team,

I’ve recently made a commit that should qualify for the “Pair Extraordinaire” achievement, but the badge hasn’t appeared on either contributor’s profile yet.

Here are the details:

• The commit includes proper co-author metadata using the exact format:
Co-authored-by: huseyinaydin99 huseyinaydin99@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: bugradostt bugradostt@gmail.com

• The commit is verified and public:
huseyinaydin99/yolo-trigger-test@eece96a

• Both users are active GitHub accounts and the emails are correctly linked to their profiles.
• The commit shows both authors (“and bugradostt authored now”) on GitHub, but the achievement did not trigger.

Could you please verify if the co-authored commit event was properly registered in the achievements backend?
We believe everything was done correctly, but it may not have processed properly.

Thank you very much for your time and help!

[davevad93]

Hi @huseyinaydin99,

The format used is correct, but if you push the commit directly from GitHub, it won't work. You have to push the commit from your local repo on your device using git bash.

Commit message

Co-authored-by: huseyinaydin99 <huseyinaydin99@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: bugradostt <bugradostt@gmail.com>

[huseyinaydin99]

Thank you for your response!

I’ve followed the exact commands you suggested, as shown below:

echo "# pair-test2" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "Commit message

Co-authored-by: huseyinaydin99 huseyinaydin99@gmail.com
Co-authored-by: bugradostt bugradostt@gmail.com"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/huseyinaydin99/pair-test2.git
git push -u origin main

The commit was successfully created and pushed, showing both co-authors on GitHub.
However, the “Pair Extraordinaire” achievement still hasn’t appeared on either contributor’s profile.

Could you please double-check if the co-authored commit event was correctly registered in the achievements system?
Thanks again for your help!

[davevad93]

Hey @huseyinaydin99 you're welcome. You've done everything correctly; sometimes achievements can take a while to appear. Wait a little while for the backend API to update.

[huseyinaydin99]

Thank you.

[davevad93]

You're welcome @huseyinaydin99, achievements can take up to 24 hours to appear.

I recommend you take a look at this pinned post with a lots of official info about achievements:

• All You Need To Know About GitHub Achievements

[reach-Harishapc]

you have to select co-author while push, compare with merge, if that is then ( while compare and merge see once again both pair names should be show if not then co author is not added if showing then it will show once merged.

[huseyinaydin99]

Yes, what you said works. It needs to be added in the commit section of the pull request. It doesn’t work with a normal commit — it only works after the merge. Thanks!