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Yeah, that part is frustrating. It picks up the PowerShell script in one of the sub directories and marks the whole project as such.

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That happened to a Go repo of mine once as well (except it was a python script causing the misidentification). I fixed it by adding a gitattributes file to the repo. Here it is:

https://github.com/w8rbt/netscan/blob/master/.gitattributes

Why is the fix to tell Github that py files are Go? I would have expected the fix to be to tell it that go files are Go instead, no?

I would guess, the real fix is to improve linguist, the Ruby gem GitHub uses to determine the programming language. Everything else is a workaround.

https://github.com/github/linguist

Thanks!

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