Repository "Languages" showing incorrect information #54854
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Select Topic AreaBug BodyHello, hope you're good. I'm here to report what seems to be a bug in my perspective. During this weekend, I have worked in a POC project to show how to use F# language to create custom GitHub Actions. And indeed, I was able to make it. One can find the repository by this link: https://github.com/64J0/custom-fsharp-gh-action-and-dynamic-matrix. I have placed the custom Action code inside the
Indeed, I have some HCL code outside the .github/ directory, but I'd like to see the F# being mentioned there as well. When comparing the files, I guess that the portion of the F# code is even larger than the code of HCL. |
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GitHub uses Linguist to detect languages, see its troubleshooting guide. I'm pretty sure what's going on here is simply that Linguist excludes |
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I decided to open an issue in the Linguist repository as well, thanks for pointing it @airtower-luna! Also, I added a .gitattributes to the repository, but it did not work as I'd like. |
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As I understand the relevant section need to use .github/fsharp-custom-action/** -linguist-vendoredI'd expect that issue to get closed as "not a bug", because the path you're using is intentionally ignored by default. 😅 |
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Got it, thanks for the heads-up. I also found this issue telling that it takes some hours to recompute the languages in the repository. |
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Indeed, it was fairly fast. The language is already appearing to me. Thanks for the help @airtower-luna.
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Thanks! |
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GitHub uses Linguist to detect languages, see its troubleshooting guide.
I'm pretty sure what's going on here is simply that Linguist excludes
.githubby default as "vendored". You could use overrides in.gitattributesto change that, but it might be better to restructure your sample action repository to look like a "normal" action repository, withaction.yml,src/, etc. in the root of the repository.