Add markdown as language

[kaffarell]

Language name

markdown

Most popular extensions

.md

Is there a reason why markdown isn't included as a language?
It really sucks, cause I have a big repository with a lot of markdown files as documentation, and a single js file. The repository thus shows 100% percent js usage, and now 99% of all the programming languages used on my github account is javascript.

[Nixinova]

Markdown is already a language, it is just not included in the repository statistics because it is not code.

Linguist starts by going through all the files in a repository and excludes all files that it determines to be binary data, vendored code, generated code, documentation, or are defined as data (e.g. SQL) or prose (e.g. Markdown) languages, whilst taking into account any overrides.
– "How Linguist works"

If you want Markdown to be included in the repository statistics you need to use an override in your /.gitattributes file:

*.md linguist-detectable

Then Markdown will be included in the results the next time GitHub refreshes your repo's language stats.

[kaffarell]

Perfect, thank you!

[Suman373]

Markdown is already a language, it is just not included in the repository statistics because it is not code.

Linguist starts by going through all the files in a repository and excludes all files that it determines to be binary data, vendored code, generated code, documentation, or are defined as data (e.g. SQL) or prose (e.g. Markdown) languages, whilst taking into account any overrides.
– "How Linguist works"

If you want Markdown to be included in the repository statistics you need to use an override in your /.gitattributes file:

*.md linguist-detectable

Then Markdown will be included in the results the next time GitHub refreshes your repo's language stats.

Thanks for the nice explanation!!

[ggorlen]

*.md linguist-detectable wasn't enough for linguist to recognize a repo with only a README.md in it. I followed this post (found via #3964 (comment)).

/.gitattributes:

*.md linguist-vendored=false
*.md linguist-generated=false
*.md linguist-documentation=false
*.md linguist-detectable=true

A more minimal version that also worked for me:

*.md linguist-documentation=false
*.md linguist-detectable