Linguist doesn't recognize code in github-pages

[JohnyP36]

I am running my own website via a github repo (repo name = johnyp36.github.io) and I added the .gitattributes file. But still it does not show which languages are used.

I put this in the `.githattributes` file

*.css linguist-language=css linguist-detectable
*.html linguist-language=hmtl linguist-detectable
*.xhtml linguist-language=hmtl linguist-detectable
*.js linguist-language=js linguist-detectable
docs/ linguist-detectable
docs/ -linguist-documentation
docs/ -linguist-generated

[lildude]

You only need one line and it needs to look like this

docs/** -linguist-documentation

Why? Because docs/ is not recursive so the override would only apply to that directory. Using docs/* would apply the override only to the files within docs/ but not any of its subdirectories, hence we need docs/** to recurse all the way down.

This is not specific to Linguist. It's how the path matching works with .gitattributes as detailed in the .gitattributes docs:

The rules by which the pattern matches paths are the same as in .gitignore files (see gitignore[5]), with a few exceptions:

• negative patterns are forbidden
• patterns that match a directory do not recursively match paths inside that directory (so using the trailing-slash path/ syntax is pointless in an attributes file; use path/** instead)

[JohnyP36]

I now works. The ** after 'docs/' solved the problem

This what I have now.

docs/** -linguist-documentation
*.xhtml linguist-language=hmtl linguist-detectable
*.woff2 linguist-language=css linguist-detectable

[JohnyP36]

I also added

.github/** -linguist-documentation
*.yml linguist-language=YAML linguist-detectable

But it seems linguist does not document what's in the .github folder. Although in the documentation does not mention it.

[lildude]

That's because .github is considered vendored here so if you really want this analysed and showing in your statistics you'll need to change your .github line to:

.github/** -linguist-vendored