Changing repository language on GitHub
Create a new file in your repo and name it to .gitattributes
. After that make sure you set linguist-detectable
to true
like this:
*.css linguist-detectable=false
*.java linguist-detectable=false
*.python linguist-detectable=true
*.js linguist-detectable=false
*.html linguist-detectable=false
*.xml linguist-detectable=false
The language detector stats the programs in your projects and shows the result with the ratio. If your repository have detected a wrong language, you can follow the tutorial, most of the time you just need to override the result with a .gitattributes
in the repository root containing something like the sample from tutorial, to manually pull up the ratio of specific programming language:
# Example of a `.gitattributes` file which reclassifies `.rb` files as Java:
*.rb linguist-language=Java