Code Quality: Hide unnecessary languages from GitHub Linguist

[Lamparter]

High score: 9 languages!
5 from main rounds, 4 from bonus round!

[Lamparter]

@slozier high score! Looks like the game gave me a bonus round as well.

[slozier]

I guess this is the sort of list I was trying to avoid. 😀

How many of these are caused by the stdlib lib folder? Wondering if marking that folder as linguist-vendored would be a better approach.

[Lamparter]

How many of these are caused by the stdlib lib folder? Wondering if marking that folder as linguist-vendored would be a better approach.

Only batchfile is used in the stdlib, though it is also used in the tests..

[Lamparter]

This is just the stupid design of Linguist - it detects all files with a numbered extension as being Roff.
When IronPython is bumped to later versions of Python it will need to be changed

[slozier]

Right, but 1, 2 and 3 are coming from the standard library so excluding it would eliminate those (as well as the pck that we filtered before). I can live with having ps1, cmd, bat and c being picked up by Linguist as we actually some of those in the codebase. That only leaves 4 which would need to be filtered out. So how about something simple like:

src/core/IronPython.StdLib/lib/** linguist-vendored
eng/package/deb/* -linguist-detectable
*.html linguist-documentation

This would probably also end up giving better stats about the code we "own" (yes we do tweak the standard lib, but the changes are very limited).

[Lamparter]

/eng/package/deb also causes issues with this.
I think the recommendation I made in the comment below is the best solution.

[slozier]

I excluded eng/package/deb in my code snippet...

[Lamparter]

@slozier another approach to this would to just do:

* linguist-detectable=false
*.cs linguist-detectable
*.py linguist-detectable