How to see the language percentage breakdown of a repository – #001

To see your language percentage being used in your repository, simply click anywhere on the color bar…

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and you’ll see the breakdown of languages detected inside.

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If you want to see how GitHub is calculating these percentages, check out the github/linguist repository!

If you see the wrong language being reported for your repository, you can open an issue over at github/linguist or submit a pull request. See their contributing guidelines.

I was sitting next to a friend at a local conference listening to a How to use GitHub Pages presentation. She said she was having trouble following along because she had made a mistake somewhere. She pointed at her screen and said GitHub was showing her errors in her newly created Pages repository, because she only saw a solid red bar at the top. I explained to her that the bar represents the language being used, so in her case it was a pure HTML project. I told her that I had no idea the repo bar showed these percentages either until just a few months prior. I thought the bar was just a colored div since most of my own projects are just 1 language Smile

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