Best way to use .gitattributes with a documentation project

[mtgstuber]

Hi folks,

I have a project whose main delivery is a specification (geisa/specification). Most of the project is restructured text files (.rst) or scalable vector graphics (.svg). When github runs linguist it classifies the project as being a combination of mermaid and python, which are really incidental to the project overall. I completely appreciate that for normal coding projects ignoring the documentation files is the correct behavior. In this case, the project is documentation. What's the best way to use .gitattributes to get the languages block to better reflect the nature of the project?

If I set linguist-documentation=false and set .rst to linguist-detectable, would the language stats for the project count the RST files?

[DecimalTurn]

The following .gitattributes entry would be sufficient in that case

*.rst linguist-detectable