Merge branch 'docs-detectable-override' into 'master'

Document linguist overriding

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!22386

Author: VirtuaCreative

doc/user/project/repository/index.md

@@ -166,7 +166,11 @@ minutes.
 ![Repository Languages bar](img/repository_languages.png)
 
 Not all files are detected, among others; documentation, 
-vendored code, and most markup languages are excluded.
+vendored code, and most markup languages are excluded. This behaviour can be
+adjusted by overriding the default. For example, to enable `.proto` files to be
+detected, add the following to `.gitattributes` in the root of your repository.
+
+> *.proto linguist-detectable=true
 
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