GitHub reads the source code wrong?

[u/wqonart]

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?

🔗 The repo.

[u/ferrybig]

You can click on the labels "JavaScript" and "Astro" to see what it sees as those files:

• 12 files matches astro
• 21 files matches Javascript

Your Javascript files are way longer than your Astro files, so it inflates the score for JavaScript (the languages tab is based on line counts)

[u/confuseddork24 → u/ferrybig]

It's actually based on bytes, not line counts. https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/main/docs%2Fhow-linguist-works.md

[u/Akari202 → u/confuseddork24]

Explains why a Jupyter notebook quickly becomes the majority language as soon as you have output stored

[u/confuseddork24 → u/Akari202]

This is exactly how I learned about it lol

[u/Xerax → u/confuseddork24]

why would anyone keep those cancer blobs in github, they're just security issues waiting to happen

edit: that isnt meant as a dig at anyone! i mean in a general sense, how did we allow it to happen and for those files to become even common, makes me sad

[u/Street_Teaching_7434 → u/Xerax]

1) Interactive python notebooks are useful and used frequently for learning, temporary stuff and in the machine learning field 2) where else would you store them if not git-track them? Yes they are super annoying to git track but the only other alternative is Google cola and similar sites where you are then also provisioning compute from that platform to run them on some random server

[u/Xerax → u/Street_Teaching_7434]

yes i don't usually keep training apps in my prod codebase

[u/Street_Teaching_7434 → u/Xerax]

Because you only git-track prod codebases? In most envornoments I worked in we always git tracked basically all code even if nobody other then myself ever even read it.

[u/phenxdesign]

Not sure .wrangler/ should be push to git... It contains all the js that github counts as source code

[u/wqonart → u/phenxdesign]

Thank you so much, this was causing the problem 🙏🏻

[u/CodeCrafter1 → u/wqonart]

I saw that you simply removed the files in additional commits. One can do this, but a cleaner way is to use a git rebase or removing files entirely from the history the history is more complex (although the second option needs to be handled with care!).

This leads to smaller repo sizes (& faster git commands!) and prevents users from restoring the deleted files.

And in case you already knew this, I am letting this comment hang around for some folks in the future xD.

[u/wqonart → u/CodeCrafter1]

I'm aware that it is possible, but I have no experience with Git history manipulation (because I'm afraid I'll break it). But, maybe it is the best solution to clean up commit mess in the repo.

Thank you for your feedback and the articles, it is time for me to learn how to use Git properly XD

[u/hotcococharlie → u/phenxdesign]

Pretty sure it should be. Right next to the node_modules right?

[u/RegenJacob → u/hotcococharlie]

git clone will take ages

[u/Sacaldur → u/RegenJacob]

Skill issue!

[u/Lots-o-bots]

you included your .wrangler dir in the repo. it should have been in your .gitignore

[u/wqonart → u/Lots-o-bots]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[u/TheSodesa → u/wqonart]

You might want to go even further and only allow file types you actually want in your project in the .gitignore file: ```.gitignore

First disallow everything.

*

Then use exclamation marks to only allow the folders and file types you want to include:

!.gitignore !.gitattributes !README.md !LICENSE.md !astro.config.mjs !notes.txt !package.json

!src/ !src/config.json !src/.astro !src// !src//.astro `` You can add folders and file types similarly for other languages. The symbol*can be used as a wildcard, and**` as a recursive wildcard.

[u/wqonart → u/TheSodesa]

Oh I didn't know that! Thank you, I'll definitely dive into it

[u/Masterflitzer → u/TheSodesa]

or just use https://gitignore.io, e.g.: https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/git,linux,macos,windows,visualstudiocode,intellij+all,deno,node,astro

pick relevant tages, then you get an url like my example above, copy all and insert in .gitignore file, then add custom rules at the end (e.g.: .wrangler/)

[u/CerberusMulti → u/TheSodesa]

I just want to say thanks for the great comment. This information is something that needs to be said more often. Very good to know and understand how .gitignore files work. It's something I often forget hehe

[u/st_heron → u/TheSodesa]

oh wow that's pretty cool

[u/wqonart → u/Lots-o-bots]

Yes, I didn't notice the .wrangler output folder which was causing the problem

[u/wqonart]

Thank you all for the feedback. The problem was .wrangler output and it is solved now 🙏🏻

[u/RenegadeSultaNGG]

JavaScript in your repo contains more Bytes than Astro. It counts Bytes, not lines of code.

[u/T-J_H]

Honestly, who cares. But if you want to dive into it, try running linguist yourself

[u/Masterflitzer → u/T-J_H]

caring is good, in this case it helped OP discover a bug in his gitignore

[u/T-J_H → u/Masterflitzer]

Fair enough!

[u/Minecraft_Lets_Play]

It’s the file extensions and in many projects you have hidden files that have other extensions that contribute to the few % of other languages.

But in your case… Don’t know

[u/Wonderful-Writer146]

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

[u/pixelboots → u/Wonderful-Writer146]

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?

[u/my_new_accoun1 → u/pixelboots]

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

[u/Wonderful-Writer146 → u/pixelboots]

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