Stop test.html from skewing language classification #667
      
        
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I really should've paid more attention before submitting #660...
This PR finishes off what #660 should've done by excluding
test.htmlfrom the repository's language breakdown. It's common practice in many GitHub repos to mark test files with thelinguist-documentationattribute.This is identical to
linguist-vendoredin that it stops marked files from skewing language stats... the key difference being that "documentation" files are included in diffs on GitHub, whereas vendored files aren't. Test-related files are the sort of thing that you don't want bloating language stats, but don't want hidden in diffs, either.I know this isn't a huge issue, but if I'm gonna contribute a menial fix, I may as well do it right.
Here's the output of running
linguistin the updated repository:Whereas before, it was this: