Top "Github-linguist" questions

Linguist is a ruby library developed and used on GitHub.

Github changes repository to wrong language

I know this isn't a huge deal but I like my Github to be linguistically diversified. I wrote a project …

git github repository github-linguist
How does github figure out a project's language?

I was recently working on a github project in both JavaScript and C++, and noticed that github tagged the project …

github github-linguist
Github language tag for Repository

On Github, some projects are tagged as being of one language or another. How do I add one of these …

github github-linguist
Using gitattributes for linguist examples

Are there any concrete examples, in order to detect wrong languages in GitHub via Linguist attributes? Source: https://github.com/…

github gitattributes github-linguist
Syntax highlighting on GitHub's Wiki: Specifying the programming language

GitHub uses something known as the "GitHub Flavored Markdown" for messages, issues and comments. My questions are: Does GitHub also …

github markdown github-linguist