Examples can be found in Linguist’s documentation. Detecting wrong languages (which’s what OP asks) can be achieved by setting linguist-language attributes in the .gitattributes file. 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 … Read more
Update April 2013, by nuclearsandwich (GitHub support team or “supportocat”): the help page “My repository is marked as the wrong language” mentions using now the linguist library to determine file language for syntax highlighting and repo statistics. Linguist will exclude certain file names and paths from statistic, excluding certain vendor files and directories. the help … Read more
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 … Read more