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Made a project with an alt github account, but now wanna include it on my portfolio.. conflicted

Hi all, having trouble on how I can include one of my personal projects in my resume/portfolio. 

Context:

I made a discord bot under an alt Github account. I have a main Github account that I always use for my projects, but not for this one. Reason being, it was originally just a fun thing I made with a few ppl I met on discord and never met them in person. Of course, I wasn't comfortable with them knowing my identity (since I don't know theirs either), so for sharing code, we all used alt accounts.

Anyways, this bot turned from something meant for like a small 10 person discord server, to now 1000+ ppl playing it in over a 100 servers. I've done quite a lot of work on this and learned a ton, so of course I wanna put it on my portfolio.

Few reasons why I am conflicted with putting it on my portfolio:

1. My name is no where in the repo details/git username. How would a recruiter know I didn't just yoink some random person's project?

2. Since this started as just a random thing for fun, the git commits are not professional at all.. (lots of commits named like "stuff", "hope this works", "lol", "progress"), and a decent amount of the code is a huge mess too..


I was considering not including the repo and just describing the project in detail in my resume/portfolio. However I normally always include the source repo... I'm afraid that if I don't include it, recruiters would be suspicious. 

Thoughts on all of this?
gpt
Nobody is really going to care about things like the details of commit messages on a hobby project. If you want to move the project into your main account you can use git to rewrite the commit history and change the author to the email and name on your main account. You can do some googling and find plenty of stack overflow posts about how to do that.