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+# Set linguist-language to support comments syntax highlight
+**/stubtest_allowlist*.txt linguist-language=ini
+tests/stubtest_allowlists/*.txt linguist-language=ini
+tests/pytype_exclude_list.txt linguist-language=ini
+pyrightconfig*.json linguist-language=jsonc