What extensions does github support, for syntax highlighting and for code/language recognition?

Question

For my Open GL shaders, GitHub seems to recognize fragment shader ( extension .fs) but not vertex shaders ( extension .vs)

Since GLSL has no defined extensions (it loads text) what is a good extension to use so I get my code recognized.

As an example my shaders Example Shaders
Note how .fs looks pretty and .vs like plain text

btw. `syntax coloring` is called `syntax highlight` it might lead for better search results ... — Spektre, Feb 15 '20 at 09:20
@VonC I tried the answer (add to .gitattributes ) w/o success. based on your answer, I could change vertex shader to *.vsh to get recognized — Richard, Feb 21 '20 at 02:24
Do you mean you had to rename the files, giving them a vsh extension? — VonC, Feb 21 '20 at 05:21
I added the .gitattributes as suggested. I did not try to rename — Richard, Feb 22 '20 at 21:01

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '20 at 05:28

See if a .gitattributes linguistic directive, as I mentioned in "Github changes repository to wrong language", would be enough:

*.vs linguist-detectable
*.vs linguist-language=GLSL

lib/linguist/languages.yml GLSL section does include ".fs", but no ".vs", only ".vsh"

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