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# Linguist
[issues]: https://github.com/github/linguist/issues
[new-issue]: https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/new
This library is used on GitHub.com to detect blob languages, ignore binary or vendored files, suppress generated files in diffs, and generate language breakdown graphs.
See [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) and [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](/CONTRIBUTING.md) before filing an issue or creating a pull request.
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![language stats bar](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/173/5562290/48e24654-8ddf-11e4-8fe7-735b0ce3a0d3.png)
The Language stats bar is built by aggregating the languages of each file in that repository. If it is reporting a language that you don't expect, click on the name of the language and to see a list of the files that are identified as that language. If there are files in your repository
The Language stats bar is built by aggregating the languages of each file in that repository. If it is reporting a language that you don't expect:
consider moving the files into one of the
See [Overrides](#overrides)
0. Click on the name of the language in the stats bar to see a list of the files that are identified as that language.
0. If you see files that you didn't write, consider moving the files into one of the [paths for vendored code](https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/vendor.yml), or use the [manual overrides](#overrides) feature to ignore them.
0. If the files are being misclassified, search for [open issues][issues] to see if anyone else has already reported the issue. Any information you an add, especially links to public repositories, is helpful.
0. If there are no reported issues of this misclassification, [open an issue][new-issue] and include a link to the repository or a sample of the code that is being misclassified.
## Overrides