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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?
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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

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