github-linguist / github-linguist/linguist
There should be an "unknown" entry with the "programming" type
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Description
Repositories with source code written with marginal languages often have wrong language statistics.
That new entry would allow, using the gitattributes overrides, to specify that the content is well source code, e.g
```
*.someExt linguist-language=unknown
```
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