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| author | Zeger-Jan van de Weg <git@zjvandeweg.nl> | 2018-10-16 12:02:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Zeger-Jan van de Weg <git@zjvandeweg.nl> | 2018-10-16 12:02:25 +0200 |
| commit | 2ab65500daea3904098d5df47ae8b1b97d8681ec (patch) | |
| tree | b64ad2fb0bf59361d97fad58fac721d7909ffb4e | |
| parent | e347170cc59dfa1e48de451f7c48ccb65d3e581a (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-2ab65500daea3904098d5df47ae8b1b97d8681ec.tar.gz | |
Document linguist overriding
Users report that some languages aren't detected, or at least not
reported. This is mostly due to the fact that these languages aren't
programming languages, according to Linguist.
Originally noted in: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/50705#note_99600216
Related: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/51995
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/project/repository/index.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/project/repository/index.md b/doc/user/project/repository/index.md index ce79bfc0a03..beff4b89424 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/repository/index.md +++ b/doc/user/project/repository/index.md @@ -166,7 +166,11 @@ minutes.  Not all files are detected, among others; documentation, -vendored code, and most markup languages are excluded. +vendored code, and most markup languages are excluded. This behaviour can be +adjusted by overriding the default. For example, to enable `.proto` files to be +detected, add the following to `.gitattributes` in the root of your repository. + +> *.proto linguist-detectable=true ## Compare |