GitHub, define language for unknown suffix?

Question

I have a repository that has Python source code in it, but the files are suffixed *.pyp. Is there a way to "assign it" to the Python language? (shown in tags, syntax highlighting, etc.)

I thought I saw something like this possible in the .gitattributes file..

Here is the answer to the same question: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/31654/force-github-syntax-highlighting-language-on-source-files — Prakash Murthy, Feb 06 '13 at 17:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '13 at 00:46

For files with a Shebang, the Shebang is considered when determining the language but seems to be evenly weighted against other tokens. This seems to be a big error because the Shebang should definitively define the language of the file. This can cause issues with highlighting.

As a workaround you can add dummy tokens in the form of a comment to "tip the scales" in favor of the correct language. This is experimental but I have had luck with it.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '17 at 07:55

I thought I saw something like this possible in the .gitattributes file..

Yes, this is possible using Linguist overrides. You'd want:

*.pyp linguist-language=Python

However, .pyp is recognized by Linguist since June 2014 (after your question's date).

GitHub, define language for unknown suffix?

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