I know this isn’t a huge deal, but I like my GitHub to be linguistically diversified. I wrote a project in Swift and when I commit it says it’s in Objective-C.

I think it might be because the Parse frameworks are written in Objective-C and it detects that, but is there a way to change the display language on the main repository page?

I found the simplest thing was to create a file called .gitattributes in the root folder of my repository, and give it these contents:

This example tells GitHub/Linguist to ignore all files, and then just look at .js files. My project, https://github.com/aim12340/jQuery-Before-Ready, was listed as HTML because the HTML example files were bigger than the JavaScript files. This file fixes it for me and now it’s listed as JavaScript.