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Re:GitHub Language Trends by coyotebush on Sunday May 04, 2014 @08:42AM (#7694065)
> I wonder if they weed out duplicate copies of, say, jQuery.

Linguist tries to filter out things like that:

https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

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Re:GitHub Language Trends by nox_ on Sunday May 04, 2014 @09:43AM (#7694253)
"Tries" is the operative word here. There is a documented history of utter incompetence in Linguist.
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Re:GitHub Language Trends by jhcnt on Sunday May 04, 2014 @04:36PM (#7695692)
Likewise for most of GitHub's other libraries. Sundown is some of the worst code I've ever seen.
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