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 lingu...

This is my repo structure: These are the language stats as detected by GitHub, even though this is a full stack app written primarily in Javascript: This is because it is reading the budget direc...

I am currently creating a lot of small experimental game projects in Lua that include a framework written in C, which dominates the code percentages and declares my project as being in C when it is...

I know this isn't a huge deal, but I like my GitHub to be linguistically diversified. I wrote a project in Swift and when I commit it says it's in Objective-C. I think it might be because the Parse...

I've noticed that Github picked JavaScript as the language for my Django app: Is it possible to change it to Python? Or do I need to make a new repository? Solved: As @Geno Chen said, to cha...

On Github, some projects are tagged as being of one language or another. How do I add one of these tags. (Objective C, PHP etc.)

I wrote a program in Python and used Bootstrap for its frontend. When I upload the directory on GitHub it shows that the project is 90% JavaScript and only 7.5% Python. I understand that this is h...

There is a page on GitHub Help describing how to use syntax-highlighted code blocks. On that page there are instructions describing how to match languages to their keywords for this purpose: We us...

GitHub uses something known as the "GitHub Flavored Markdown" for messages, issues and comments. My questions are: Does GitHub also use this syntax for their Wiki? From what I understand one can ...

I was recently working on a github project in both JavaScript and C++, and noticed that github tagged the project as C++. If you have to pick a single language, this is probably the correct designa...

I'm writing a small DSL, and I'm curious if it's possible to somehow show it in a language bar above the repository source where all languages are listed by percentage of using or GitHub administra...

Git shows the percentage of what languages make up a repository. However, for one of my projects I want to use my own custom language. I know I can create a .gitattributes file and place *.py lingu...

I'm new to Git and I'm trying to push my local branch to the remote directory on Github. My project is on Matlab, so the files have .m extension. They naturally don't show any objective-c language ...

i have been made a repository in GitHub with as Xcode project with Objective-C language. Beside .gitignore file in root of my project made .gitattributes file and set this code in it: * linguist-...