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GitHub thinks Octo files are Roff files #103
Description
GitHub/Linguist is currently misclassifying .8o files as Roff files. This is not entirely uncommon, but the answer always seems to be to override it manually.
We can of course override it manually in all our repositories (JohnEarnest/chip8Archive perhaps being the main one), but what should we override it to?
Should we perhaps consider adding Octo support to Linguist?
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JohnEarnest commentedon Nov 26, 2019
@tobiasvl yes, this would be a worthwhile enhancement.
Are you interested in attempting to extend Linguist?
tobiasvl commentedon Nov 26, 2019
Yep, sure!
pushfoo commentedon Dec 10, 2022
Is this still something @tobiasvl will be looking at?
I think Octo might meet linguist's language addition guidelines:
I've seen PRs with vscode grammars on the linguist repo, but I'm less sure of the second item given it's not rare for people to put all their Octo projects into a single repo.
HarianthK commentedon Sep 13, 2026
For the archive, which this issue names as the main place it shows, I have opened JohnEarnest/chip8Archive#37 with a one-line
.gitattributescounting.8oas Assembly, on the grounds that Octo calls itself an assembler. Checked on a fork first: the bar goes from 99% Roff to Assembly and HTML.That does not get Octo into Linguist, which still needs the 200 repositories, but it stops the archive telling visitors it is written in Roff in the meantime.