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by coyotebush 4424 days ago
> I wonder if they weed out duplicate copies of, say, jQuery.

Linguist tries to filter out things like that:

https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

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"Tries" is the operative word here. There is a documented history of utter incompetence in Linguist.
Likewise for most of GitHub's other libraries. Sundown is some of the worst code I've ever seen.