Monica Powell • 2/7/2017

How to Change Repo Language in GitHub

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This technical tutorial explains how to correct GitHub's Linguist tool when it misclassifies the primary language of a repository. It provides a step-by-step solution using a .gitattributes file to ignore specific directories (like static assets in a Flask app), ensuring the repository's language breakdown accurately reflects the main code.

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