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Draft: Add linguist gem

Kerri Miller requested to merge 391774/add-linguist-gem into master

What does this MR do and why?

This gem is used for determining the language of a blob, as well as for detecting generated files. That last capability, detecting generated files, is our interest here as a step towards Suppress display of generated files (&9903 - closed)

Related to #391774 (closed)

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