Override languages being included by language statistics

README.md

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Linguist supports a number of different custom override strategies for language
 
 ### Using gitattributes
 
-Add a `.gitattributes` file to your project and use standard git-style path matchers for the files you want to override using the `linguist-documentation`, `linguist-language`, `linguist-vendored`, and `linguist-generated` attributes. `.gitattributes` will be used to determine language statistics and will be used to syntax highlight files. You can also manually set syntax highlighting using [Vim or Emacs modelines](#using-emacs-or-vim-modelines).
+Add a `.gitattributes` file to your project and use standard git-style path matchers for the files you want to override using the `linguist-documentation`, `linguist-language`, `linguist-vendored`, `linguist-generated`  and `linguist-detectable` attributes. `.gitattributes` will be used to determine language statistics and will be used to syntax highlight files. You can also manually set syntax highlighting using [Vim or Emacs modelines](#using-emacs-or-vim-modelines).
 
 ```
 $ cat .gitattributes
@@ -164,6 +164,19 @@ $ cat .gitattributes
 Api.elm linguist-generated=true
 ```
 
+#### Detectable
+
+Only programming languages are included in the language statistics. Languages of a different type (as defined in [`languages.yml`](/lib/linguist/languages.yml)) are not "detectable" causing them not to be included in the language statistics.
+
+Use the `linguist-detectable` attribute to mark or unmark paths as detectable.
+
+```
+$ cat .gitattributes
+*.kicad_pcb linguist-detectable=true
+*.sch linguist-detectable=true
+tools/export_bom.py linguist-detectable=false
+```
+
 ### Using Emacs or Vim modelines
 
 If you do not want to use `.gitattributes` to override the syntax highlighting used on GitHub.com, you can use Vim or Emacs style modelines to set the language for a single file. Modelines can be placed anywhere within a file and are respected when determining how to syntax-highlight a file on GitHub.com

lib/linguist/blob_helper.rb

@@ -383,7 +383,10 @@ def include_in_language_stats?
       !vendored? &&
       !documentation? &&
       !generated? &&
-      language && DETECTABLE_TYPES.include?(language.type)
+      language && ( defined?(detectable?) && !detectable?.nil? ?
+        detectable? :
+        DETECTABLE_TYPES.include?(language.type)
+      )
     end
   end
 end

lib/linguist/lazy_blob.rb

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ class LazyBlob
     GIT_ATTR = ['linguist-documentation',
                 'linguist-language',
                 'linguist-vendored',
-                'linguist-generated']
+                'linguist-generated',
+                'linguist-detectable']
 
     GIT_ATTR_OPTS = { :priority => [:index], :skip_system => true }
     GIT_ATTR_FLAGS = Rugged::Repository::Attributes.parse_opts(GIT_ATTR_OPTS)
@@ -70,6 +71,14 @@ def language
       end
     end
 
+    def detectable?
+      if attr = git_attributes['linguist-detectable']
+        return boolean_attribute(attr)
+      else
+        nil
+      end
+    end
+
     def data
       load_blob!
       @data

test/test_blob.rb

@@ -307,5 +307,36 @@ def test_include_in_language_stats
 
     included = sample_blob_memory("HTML/pages.html")
     assert_predicate included, :include_in_language_stats?
+
+    # Test detectable override (i.e by .gitattributes)
+
+    def prose.detectable?; true end
+    assert_predicate prose, :include_in_language_stats?
+
+    included_not_detectable = included.clone()
+    def included_not_detectable.detectable?; false end
+    refute_predicate included_not_detectable, :include_in_language_stats?
+
+    # Test not included if vendored, documentation or generated overridden
+    # even if detectable
+
+    included_vendored = included.clone()
+    def included_vendored.vendored?; true end
+    refute_predicate included_vendored, :include_in_language_stats?
+    def included_vendored.detectable?; true end
+    refute_predicate included_vendored, :include_in_language_stats?
+
+    included_documentation = included.clone()
+    def included_documentation.documentation?; true end
+    refute_predicate included_documentation, :include_in_language_stats?
+    def included_documentation.detectable?; true end
+    refute_predicate included_documentation, :include_in_language_stats?
+
+    included_generated = included.clone()
+    def included_generated.generated?; true end
+    refute_predicate included_generated, :include_in_language_stats?
+    def included_generated.detectable?; true end
+    refute_predicate included_generated, :include_in_language_stats?
+
   end
 end

test/test_repository.rb

@@ -121,4 +121,16 @@ def test_linguist_override_generated?
     # overridden .gitattributes
     assert rakefile.generated?
   end
+
+  def test_linguist_override_detectable?
+    attr_commit = "8f86998866f6f2c8aa14e0dd430e61fd25cff720"
+    linguist_repo(attr_commit).read_index
+
+    # markdown is overridden by .gitattributes to be detectable, html to not be detectable
+    markdown = Linguist::LazyBlob.new(rugged_repository, attr_commit, "samples/Markdown/tender.md")
+    html = Linguist::LazyBlob.new(rugged_repository, attr_commit, "samples/HTML/pages.html")
+
+    assert_predicate markdown, :detectable?
+    refute_predicate html, :detectable?
+  end
 end