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+# Correct GitHub's language detection shenanigans
+
+# Asset files are not Unity, but Lua instead
+*.asset linguist-language=Lua
+# We have some SPICE frame kernels that get misclassified as code
+.tf -linguist-detectable
+# We don't want to index the GDAL csv and xml files
+modules/globebrowsing/gdal_data/* linguist-vendored
+
 # GitHub files
 ATTRIBUTION text
 AUTHORS text