From 95ad890a7b0341d8d2fde13f824bc24c65a8ece0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:13:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] bpo-42084: Language aware diff headers (GH-22776)

---
 .gitattributes | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 598d8f0f159..3827d09709d 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -57,3 +57,13 @@ Doc/library/token-list.inc  linguist-generated=true
 Include/token.h             linguist-generated=true
 Lib/token.py                linguist-generated=true
 Parser/token.c              linguist-generated=true
+
+# Language aware diff headers
+# https://tekin.co.uk/2020/10/better-git-diff-output-for-ruby-python-elixir-and-more
+# https://gist.github.com/tekin/12500956bd56784728e490d8cef9cb81
+*.c     diff=cpp
+*.h     diff=cpp
+*.css   diff=css
+*.html  diff=html
+*.py    diff=python
+*.md    diff=markdown