[▲ Vercel Community](/) · [Categories](/categories) · [Latest](/latest) · [Top](/top) · [Live](/live) [Help](/c/help/9) # Vercel deployment blocked (initial deployment was OK) 1 view · 0 likes · 6 posts Myezweb1 1984 (@myezweb1-1984) · 2026-04-08 I’m experiencing a “Deployment Blocked” error on my `Hobby` account. ## Error Message > **The Deployment was blocked because GitHub could not associate the committer with a GitHub user. The Hobby Plan does not support collaboration for private repositories. Please upgrade to Pro to add team members.** ## Context * Project was successfully deployed once then it got “blocked”. * Git repository is private. * I am the sole owner and the only member of this project. * My `Vercel` account email is verified and set as Primary and it matches `GitHub`. Please help. There are many other similar posts advising to match the emails but my email is the same and `GitHub` is authenticated (reconnected today). Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2026-04-08 There was a similar question shared here, does this help? https://community.vercel.com/t/issue-with-hobby-plan-deployment-commit-author-mismatch/33964/4?u=pawlean The “DELETED ACCOUNT” message typically means Vercel lost the connection between your Git commits and your Vercel user. Reconnecting GitHub usually fixes this! Myezweb1 1984 (@myezweb1-1984) · 2026-04-08 Thanks for your response. I reconnected GItHub and it didn't help. What's confusing to me is that it all worked.... then it stopped. Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2026-04-08 Can you share what you've done so far? Did you go through the steps I shared above? Myezweb1 1984 (@myezweb1-1984) · 2026-04-08 [quote="Issue with Hobby Plan Deployment - Commit Author Mismatch, post:4, topic:33964"] Check your Git configuration matches exactly whats in GitHub: git config --global user.email > git config --global user.name The email must match an email address associated with your GitHub account [/quote] Thank you. This is the solution! My issue has been resolved. **For everyone having the "build blocked" issue, follow these steps:** In your CLI terminal run these commands to see what your current settings are: * git config --global user.email * git config --global user.name If the output isn't matching your GitHub settings (check your account), change it by running these (!!!!Replace the email/name with your GitHub email and name!!!!) : * git config --global user.email "your@example.com" * git config --global user.name "Your Name" NOTE: You didn't do anything to cause this issue. Most likely Vercel made an update to enforce GitHub verification. This explains why all of sudden so many people are having the same issue. Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2026-04-09 · ♥ 1 I'm glad that this works for you! Thank you so much for sharing :D