The root folder for my project is named demo and I'm trying to override it by adding a .gitattributes at the same level as the directory.
I have tried:
demo/** linguist-documentation
This doesn't seem to work, however.
What should I include instead so that the linguist will scan my project?
You can try .gitattributes directives mentioned in "Using gitattributes for linguist examples"
None of those includes the name of the repository, only folders/files inside the repository. See more at "ithub/linguist/blob Overrides / Using gitattributes"
In your case:
** linguist-documentation=false
