I have the following site: www.maartendesplenter.com. This site uses the free plan and is build from a private repo on github.
This was all set up a while back, with just a standard 404 page while I was working on the rest of the site. This initial commit was made from my personal account (not this one) and deployed without a problem. Since then, the repository has moved (a fork of the original one, but managed by this account). This did not trigger a redeploy. I’ve been developing the rest of the site on a dev branch that also didn’t trigger any builds. I worked locally using netlify CLI / netlify dev.
Today, I updated the 404 page and commited from the same personal account as before. This is how I discovered there can only be one contributer to a free project with a private repo, as I got the following deploy error message “Build failed: unrecognized Git contributor.”
Easy fix? I made sure to connect the github account associated with this account (a shared one between me and my client), and redid the commit from this account. I still got the same error message.
Maybe the problem was that the initial commit was from a different account? At this point I had no idea what was going on anymore, so I made a new repository (on this account), linked it on netlify, made one initial commit (on this account) and still it wouldn’t deploy with the same error message.
My netlify account is linked to the github account and is in the team of the netlify project of the site. The site is linked to the correct private repo and all contributions to that repo use the same github account that is linked to netlify.
I’m pretty sure I’m not breaking any rules anymore for the free plan, as I’m only using one account for everything. But if anyone knows what could be the issue, or how I can debug this problem, it would be greatly appreciated.
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