General poor performance detecting files

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, cpp, yaml
Domain
devtools, security

Research direction

Reproduce the default CodeQL setup from the GitHub Web UI against the linked mcandre/swiper repository, then inspect which C/C++ and YML/YAML files are detected and how long analysis takes. Compare the observed coverage with the issue report; done means the detection or performance problem is clearly addressed and verified on this example.

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Description

Hi,

I enabled CodeQL via the GitHub Web UI, using the defaults. But it fails to detect basic C/C++ files, YML/YAML files, and many other languages and configuration formats besides.

Example:

https://github.com/mcandre/swiper

Dominant language
TypeScript
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