github - Using gitattributes for linguist examples -

are there concrete examples, in order detect wrong languages in github via linguist attributes?

source: https://github.com/github/linguist

• linguist-documentation
• linguist-language
• linguist-vendored

examples can found in linguist's readme file. want can achieved linguist-language attributes.

linguist-language

with following attribute, linguist detects .rb files being java files.

*.rb linguist-language=java 

linguist-vendored

with following attribute, linguist detects files in special-vendored-path directory (notice trailing mandatory *) vendored , excludes them statistics.

special-vendored-path/* linguist-vendored 

linguist-documentation

without following attribute, linguist detect file docs/formatter.rb documentation , exclude statistics.

docs/formatter.rb linguist-documentation=false