Using gitattributes for linguist examples

Question

Are there any concrete examples, in order to detect wrong languages in GitHub via Linguist attributes?

Source: https://github.com/github/linguist

• linguist-documentation
• linguist-language
• linguist-vendored

Answer 1

Examples can be found in Linguist's documentation. What you want can be achieved with linguist-language attributes.

linguist-language

With the following attribute, Linguist detects all .rb files as being Java files.

*.rb linguist-language=Java

linguist-vendored

With the following attribute, Linguist detects files in the special-vendored-path directory (notice the mandatory trailing *) as vendored and excludes them from statistics.

special-vendored-path/* linguist-vendored

linguist-documentation

Without the following attribute, Linguist would detect the file docs/formatter.rb as documentation and exclude it from statistics.

docs/formatter.rb linguist-documentation=false

linguist-detectable

With the following attribute, Linguist counts SQL files in statistics. Without this attribute, only programming and markup languages are counted in statistics.

*.sql linguist-detectable=true