kowainik / kowainik/kowainik.github.io
Ignore HTML and CSS files during language calculation
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enhancement
question
- Dominant language
- HTML
- Stars
- 31
- Forks
- 3
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Apparently it's possible to tell GitHub to ignore some files during language calculation. See example here:
We can ignore all HTML and CSS files to not have HTML and CSS as one of our top languages on the main organization page.
Do you think it's a good idea?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the repository's language-detection behavior and compare the linked .gitattributes example. Confirm how HTML and CSS are currently counted, then verify that the configuration can exclude both file types and that the resulting language summary no longer ranks them among the top languages.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- css, github, html
- Domain
- tooling, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100