Gitlab: remove notebooks from language percentage

Question

At the top of a Gitlab project, there is a bar showing the percentage of each language used inside the project.

In my repository I have dozens of large python files and one little notebook with a few lines of code, but it shows that the project contains mostly notebooks. This is not a bug, it's just related to the fact that plots in particular generates tons of raw lines in the .ipynb files.

I want to avoid this behavior, e.g. by telling Gitlab not to count the lines of this file. I found some solutions for Github, but not for Gitlab.

NB: I don't want to create an extra repository to host one little notebook, even though it would solve this.

Answer 1

Add to (or create) your .gitattributes file with the following content:

*.ipynb -linguist-detectable

This will tell linguist to ignore these files when calculating the languages. Similar attributes should also work, like linguist-vendored or linguist-generated.

Also note, per the documentation changes to the .gitattributes file must be committed to the root of the default branch of the project to take effect.