Repository "Languages" showing incorrect information

[64J0]

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Hello, 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 .github/fsharp-custom-action/ path, but this F# code is not appearing in the repository languages:

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.

[airtower-luna]

GitHub uses Linguist to detect languages, see its troubleshooting guide.

I'm pretty sure what's going on here is simply that Linguist excludes .github by default as "vendored". You could use overrides in .gitattributes to change that, but it might be better to restructure your sample action repository to look like a "normal" action repository, with action.yml, src/, etc. in the root of the repository.

[64J0]

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.

[airtower-luna]

As I understand the relevant section need to use -linguist-vendored to mark it as not vendored instead of linguist-detectable. Also use ** instead of * to catch files within subdirectories:

.github/fsharp-custom-action/** -linguist-vendored

I'd expect that issue to get closed as "not a bug", because the path you're using is intentionally ignored by default. 😅

[64J0]

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.

[64J0]

Indeed, it was fairly fast. The language is already appearing to me. Thanks for the help @airtower-luna.

[raufzer]

Thanks!