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Re:Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and a... by Ne0nd0g on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @10:53AM (#18800607)
Yeah, that part is frustrating. It picks up the PowerShell script in one of the sub directories and marks the whole project as such.
Re:Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and a... by w8rbt on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @11:02AM (#18800649)
That happened to a Go repo of mine once as well (except it was a python script causing the misidentification). I fixed it by adding a gitattributes file to the repo. Here it is:

https://github.com/w8rbt/netscan/blob/master/.gitattributes

Re:Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and a... by StavrosK on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @12:46PM (#18801227)
Why is the fix to tell Github that py files are Go? I would have expected the fix to be to tell it that go files are Go instead, no?
Re:Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and a... by rmetzler on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @01:50PM (#18801580)
I would guess, the real fix is to improve linguist, the Ruby gem GitHub uses to determine the programming language. Everything else is a workaround.

https://github.com/github/linguist

Re:Merlin: A cross-platform command and control server and a... by Ne0nd0g on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @11:10AM (#18800684)
Thanks!