github-linguist/linguist

Command-line option to list "other"/unidentifiable files

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#4,950 opened on Aug 20, 2020

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Description

Using github-linguist 7.9.0 on a whole repository, it would be nice if the output of --breakdown included the files linguist couldn't identify the language of ("other") or even had an option explicitly to list them.

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Examine the existing breakdown code path and identify where language detection fails, then add a command line flag to display those 'other' files.
Tech stack
ruby
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cli
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Feature
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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GitRuby
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70