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Parent languages are ignored

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commented

Fixing #5 made me realise linguist-js ignores parent languages when classifying.

Running linguist on tsx & jsx files returns 'TSX, JavaScript' as the results, which may or may not be wanted.

"results": {
  "JavaScript": { "type": "programming", "bytes": 63, "color": "#f1e05a" },
  "TSX": { "type": "programming", "bytes": 86, "color": "#2b7489" }
}

There should be a parent/group parameter for each language in languages.results[lang], I think, and a boolean option to control whether parenthood is followed up on may also be useful.

commented

Linguist will display the parent languages by default, which may be an abrupt change but github-linguist typically uses sub-languages just to offer different syntax highlighting for different file extensions, so using sub-languages by default will lead to inconsistencies.