How do you stop "other" language being detected?

[Lamparter]

I'm having a strange problem where Linguist keeps detecting the language "Other" in my repo when I would prefer for it to just not list that as a language at all.

There is probably a really easy way to fix this, any tips would be greatly appreciated 🙂

[lildude]

GitHub, independently of Linguist, will group all languages that amount to less than 1% if there are more than one into the "Other" you see.

In your case this will be the JavaScript and TypeScript files:

➜ github-linguist DevSanx/
69.35%  29489      C#
17.52%  7448       CSS
12.86%  5467       HTML
0.21%   91         JavaScript
0.06%   27         TypeScript
➜

These files are all in your Copilot directory.

So if you really don't want to see "Other" (I'm not sure why you'd want to) you need to do one of two things:

• write more JavaScript or TypeScript to bring the total of one of them by bytes of code over 1%
• use an override to tell Linguist to exclude these files or directory.

[Lamparter]

Thanks so much! This is really useful and much appreciated ❤️