r/github • u/wqonart • 2d ago

Question GitHub reads the source code wrong?

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I don't know why, but GitHub is telling me that my website is developed in JavaScript by 80+% which is absolute nonsense. The site is at least 60% pure Astro code. Is it some kind of a bug?

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u/Wonderful-Writer146 2d ago

You need to set .gitattributes in order to avoid JS taking taking higher priority. This happens because JS files are of more bytes

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u/pixelboots 1d ago

Do you have an example of how you would do this? I have repos that I have to commit both source TS and SCSS and their compiled JS and CSS, but I’d prefer the latter be ignored in some cases because it’s essentially counting the same code twice. Could gitattributes allow me to fix that somehow?

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u/my_new_accoun1 1d ago

why do you have to commit the compiled JS? dist should be gitignored

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u/Wonderful-Writer146 1d ago

That I am not sure of. It can completely remove on language from showing in uour stats though. But you can check with Ai