Github now support custom highlight config

[horst]

To show our *.module files with the correct PHP syntax highlighter is now possible on Github.

With new repos, you first need to add a .gitattributes file to it. After that you can view *.module files with the PHP syntax highlighter applied: MetadataExif.module 

So, this doesn't work with already created / comitted repos by simply adding the .gitattributes file. But it will find its way through different caching layers on github if you add it to your repos and further committs to them. (https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/1792#issuecomment-286379822)

[clsource]

this is wonderful news, thank you.

here are the official docs

https://github.com/github/linguist#overrides

[Jan Romero]

Sorry for unearthing this thread, but I can’t figure this out…

https://github.com/processwire/processwire/blob/master/.gitattributes

What does "$ cat .gitattributes" do here? I know what cat is, but why is this line in this file?

[LostKobrakai]

Nothing: https://github.com/processwire/processwire/commit/188d0e150ddbcac366a662e274997c77a50af66d