.target
1 claimant
0 primary
1 secondary
secondary-only
SWH popularity
Distinct files in the full Software Heritage archive (2026-06-04 export), dated by first appearance, following Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz (MSR 2025). Case-aggregated. citation.
231.1K
total files
68.6K
first seen 2021–2025 (29.7%)
2019
median year (half its files since)
Case variants in archive: .target (230.8K), .Target (200), .TARGET (87) — aggregated above.
Attribution status
This extension is attributed to ini — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.
Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary ✗ Pygments · no claim ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim
Claimants (1)
Languages that list
.target among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.| Language | Source | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| ini | linguist | secondary |
Disambiguation rules (1)
Linguist heuristics that decide, by content, which language a
.target file actually is.| Rule | Predicts | Kind | Predicates (truncated) | Measured on SWH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
h/linguist/.target/0 | ini | predicates | [{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^[#\\s]*\\[[^\\]]+\\]\\s*$"]}, {"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^[^#!;][^=]*="]}, {"kind": "not_any", "regexes": ["^[^#;=\\[]+[^ \\r\\n=]$"]}] |
SWH-mined examples (0)
No archived examples for .target in our local mirror yet.