Как изменить язык репозитория github

asked Nov 28, 2012 at 4:34

It is purely deduced from the code content.

As Pedro mentions:

Please note that we count the total bytes of each language’s file (we check the extension) to decide the percentages.
This means that if you see your project reported a JavaScript, but you swear you use Ruby, you probably have a JS lib somewhere that is bigger than your Ruby code

As detailed in «GitHub changes repository to the 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
  

You can also make some of the files vendor-ed. Just create a .gitattributes file in the main directory. If you want to exclude CSS from the language statistics write into the file something like this.
client/stylesheets/* linguist-vendored

This will hide all files in the client/stylesheets/ from the language statistics. In my case these are the .css files.

This solves your problem partly, because hides the most used language and choose the second one to be prime.

answered Apr 22, 2016 at 14:07

answered Apr 20, 2017 at 13:19

As VonC mentioned in the comments, you can put your libraries under «vendors» or «thirdparty» and the files won’t be analysed by linguist, the tool GitHub uses to analyse the language in your code.

# Vendored dependencies
- third[-_]?party/
- 3rd[-_]?party/
- vendors?/
- extern(al)?/

Later, they added more folder names.

answered Aug 15, 2019 at 4:03

Rename the name of the code files in your repository with the extension added.

For example:

• change abc to abc.py for Python
• abc to abc.java for Java files
• abc to abc.html for HTML

asked Nov 28, 2012 at 4:34

It is purely deduced from the code content.

As Pedro mentions:

Please note that we count the total bytes of each language’s file (we check the extension) to decide the percentages.
This means that if you see your project reported a JavaScript, but you swear you use Ruby, you probably have a JS lib somewhere that is bigger than your Ruby code

As detailed in «GitHub changes repository to the 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
  

You can also make some of the files vendor-ed. Just create a .gitattributes file in the main directory. If you want to exclude CSS from the language statistics write into the file something like this.
client/stylesheets/* linguist-vendored

This will hide all files in the client/stylesheets/ from the language statistics. In my case these are the .css files.

This solves your problem partly, because hides the most used language and choose the second one to be prime.

answered Apr 22, 2016 at 14:07

answered Apr 20, 2017 at 13:19

As VonC mentioned in the comments, you can put your libraries under «vendors» or «thirdparty» and the files won’t be analysed by linguist, the tool GitHub uses to analyse the language in your code.

# Vendored dependencies
- third[-_]?party/
- 3rd[-_]?party/
- vendors?/
- extern(al)?/

Later, they added more folder names.

answered Aug 15, 2019 at 4:03

Rename the name of the code files in your repository with the extension added.

For example:

• change abc to abc.py for Python
• abc to abc.java for Java files
• abc to abc.html for HTML

asked Jan 11, 2016 at 3:26

I found the simplest thing was to create a file called .gitattributes in the root folder of my repository, and give it these contents:

* linguist-vendored
*.js linguist-vendored=false

This example tells GitHub/Linguist to ignore all files, and then just look at .js files. My project, https://github.com/aim12340/jQuery-Before-Ready, was listed as HTML because the HTML example files were bigger than the JavaScript files. This file fixes it for me and now it’s listed as JavaScript.

As mentioned in the GitHub help page

GitHub uses the open source Linguist library to determine file languages for syntax highlighting and repository statistics.
Some files are hard to identify, and sometimes projects contain more library and vendor files than their primary code.

So you need to check with github/linguist#troubleshooting in order to fix this situation.

The percentages are calculated based on the bytes of code for each language as reported by the List Languages API.
If the bar is reporting a language that you don’t expect:

• Click on the name of the language in the stats bar to see a list of the files that are identified as that language.
• If you see files that you didn’t write, consider moving the files into one of the paths for vendored code, or use the manual overrides feature to ignore them.
• If the files are being misclassified, search for open issues to see if anyone else has already reported the issue. Any information you can add, especially links to public repositories, is helpful.
• If there are no reported issues of this misclassification, open an issue and include a link to the repository or a sample of the code that is being misclassified.

Update February 2017 (one year later):

The article «How to Change Repo Language in GitHub» from Monica Powell

Upon researching how to resolve GitHub misclassifying the language of your projects I found out the solution is as simple as telling GitHub which files to ignore.

While you still want to commit these files to GitHub and therefore can’t use a .gitignore you can tell GitHub’s linguist which files to ignore in a .gitattributes file

static/* linguist-vendored

This one-line file told GitHub to ignore all of my files in my static/ folder which is where CSS and other assets are stored for a Flask app

The «Using .gitattributes» section does illustrate how to mark wrong languages.
For instance:

Checking code you didn’t write, such as JavaScript libraries, into your git repo is a common practice, but this often inflates your project’s language stats and may even cause your project to be labeled as another language.
By default, Linguist treats all of the paths defined in vendor.yml as vendored and therefore doesn’t include them in the language statistics for a repository.

Use the linguist-vendored attribute to vendor or un-vendor paths.

$ cat .gitattributes
special-vendored-path/* linguist-vendored
jquery.js linguist-vendored=false

answered Jan 11, 2016 at 6:09

To make it simple, let me share my steps:

1. Change directory to your project root folder;

2. Create a file named .gitattributes using whatever tools of your choice:

    touch .gitattributes
   

3. Edit the file by following the Linguist library instructions to tell GitHub how to do it, for example:

    vi .gitattributes
   

   Using linguist-vendored can let GitHub know to «skip» detection for this folder and sub-folders:

   src/main/resources/static/* linguist-vendored

   Use the linguist-documentation attribute to mark or unmark paths as documentation:

   project-docs/* linguist-documentation

   OR mark an individual file containing documentation

   documented_code.rb linguist-documentation=true

   This is a bit weird, but you can do also — to tell GitHub to treat some files with a specific extension (e.g., *.rb) as Java:

   *.rb linguist-language=Java

4. Git add, commit and then push it to GitHub. The label will be corrected almost immediately.

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answered Jul 21, 2018 at 14:58

I have problem with this also. I created .gitattributes in root of my project. I removed .js and .cs, but .html is still there. This is my .gitattributes file:

*.cs linguist-detectable=true
*.js linguist-detectable=false`
*.html linguist-detectable=false
*.xml linguist-detectable=false

When I add * linguist-vendored, I don’t see anything on GitHub.

Answer:

It is still the same. .html is still shown.

1. Create file «.gitattributes» in the root folder.

If you want your git to detect only .java files, you can use:

*.java linguist-detectable=true
*.* linguist-detectable=false

The . means every other file should not be detected as language.
For those who want more than 2 languages to be detected, they can manipulate this file.

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