[Feature Request]: Ignore directories from language statistics bar

[spacekookie]

• Gitea version (or commit ref): 1.13.0

• Git version: N/A

• Operating system: NixOS/ Linux (systemd)

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Description

The linguist project used by GitHub (and GitLab) supports .gitattributes files in the repository tree to exclude certain directories or files. This is very useful when vendoring large code-bases.

I operate a monorepo for all my code, which contains subtrees for many of my project dependencies. Because of this the language bar is not representative of the languages I actually write.

It would be great if there was some way of telling gitea to ignore certain directories for the purpose of language statistics. I had a look at the code, but I really don't know Go and couldn't figure out how to implement it.

It doesn't neccessarily have to be the same .gitattributes format that linguist uses (it would be cool though!). It would already be enough if there was a list of "ignore paths" in the project settings screen.

Anyway, let me know what you think.

[lunny]

So the .gitattributes should be in the root path of the repository?

[spacekookie]

I think that's how linguist handles them, yea.

This is an example from one of my projects: https://git.qaul.org/qaul/qaul/-/blob/develop/.gitattributes

The syntax is otherwise documented here: https://github.com/github/linguist#using-gitattributes

[lafriks]

yes, this is not currently supported

[spacekookie]

@lafriks

yes, this is not currently supported

[Feature Request]