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Oh, I thought that we do this sort of thing whenever there's a new open source project posted here. People seem to want to know what it's made of and potentially its (S)LOC.



I've never seen anyone do that on here.


But I like it. GitHub is all like "98.6% C++, 1.4% Other", which is... an understandable heuristic, but very meh.


I wish GitHub let me customise which directories to include. My project shows up as 74% Ruby, but a lot of that is some specs that aren't really part of the project, and in reality it's 60% Ruby.


To some extent, you can influence GitHub's classification via gitattributes:

https://github.com/github/linguist


Didn't know about loc or this thing, thanks for bringing it up.




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