The highlight project which is being used by gitweb supports this. I checked it before submitting the patch. Thanks On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Golang is quickly becoming one of the major programming languages. >> >> This change switches on golang syntax highlight support by default >> in gitweb rather than asking the users to do it using config files. > > Looks trivially harmless ;-) > > I haven't touched this part of our system, but the patch makes me > wonder if there is a way for us to _ask_ the installed 'highlight' > binary what languages it knows about. This hash is used only in > guess_file_syntax sub, and it may not be unreasonable to populate it > lazily there, or at least generate this part by parsing output from > 'highlight -p' at build-install time. > >> Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> gitweb/gitweb.perl | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl >> index bf7fd67..aa6fcfd 100755 >> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl >> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl >> @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ our %highlight_basename = ( >> our %highlight_ext = ( >> # main extensions, defining name of syntax; >> # see files in /usr/share/highlight/langDefs/ directory >> - (map { $_ => $_ } qw(py rb java css js tex bib xml awk bat ini spec tcl sql)), >> + (map { $_ => $_ } qw(py rb java go css js tex bib xml awk bat ini spec tcl sql)), >> # alternate extensions, see /etc/highlight/filetypes.conf >> (map { $_ => 'c' } qw(c h)), >> (map { $_ => 'sh' } qw(sh bash zsh ksh)), -- - Pavan Kumar Sunkara -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html