Github Linguist does not recognize the languages of the Repo

Question

sylhare opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Sometime github does not recognize the extension of the repo. But it can be configured in the .gittatributes file.

Sylhare · Answer 1 · Sat May 06 2017 23:34:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Here are some links that can help:

As detailed in "Github changes repository to wrong language", you can add a .gitattributes file in which you can:

ignore part of your project (not considered for language detection)
```
  static/* linguist-vendored
```
consider part of your project as documentation:
```
  docs/* linguist-documentation
```
indicate some files with specific extension (for instance *.rb) should be considered a specific language:
```
  *.rb linguist-language=Java
```