Postscript code always treated as "binary"

[denismm]

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Much of my code is written in postscript. When I look at my commits on github, my .ps file changes just say "Binary file not shown." See denismm/dmmlib@3ffbe05 for example. This isn't a git issue - this works fine on the command line on my local system.

$ git show 3ffbe0552eb85ae178f0b3c134629ab059f0152b | head -20
commit 3ffbe0552eb85ae178f0b3c134629ab059f0152b
Author: Denis Moskowitz <denismm@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Oct 15 16:06:14 2023 -0400

    support polar_corner_mode in pplineto

diff --git a/polar.ps b/polar.ps
index 1ab0086..4b39b25 100644
--- a/polar.ps
+++ b/polar.ps
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
 
 /polyralop { /y arg /x arg
     % reverse polypolar mapping
-    y 0 eq x 0 eq {
+    y 0 eq x 0 eq and {
         0 0
     } {
         /true_angle y x atan def
@@ -204,11 +204,38 @@

How can I get github to treat my code as code?

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[weyniis]

Yeah, this happens because GitHub treats .ps (PostScript) files as binary by default, even though they’re actually plain text.

GitHub uses a tool called linguist to decide file types. Unfortunately, .ps is currently marked as binary in Linguist’s settings — so GitHub won’t show diffs for those files in commits or PRs.

One workaround is to add a .gitattributes file to ur repo with this line:

*.ps text

This tells Git to treat .ps files as text, which can help with local tools — but sadly it won’t change how GitHub renders it on the website, since the UI logic still follows Linguist rules.

If this is something u feel strongly about, I’d suggest opening a request or PR over at github/linguist to ask for .ps to be treated as source code. Others might benefit from it too.

[weyniis]

u can open a GitHub issue or feature request here:
👉 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/site-feedback

That’s where GitHub usually takes feedback on UI behavior, like how .ps files are rendered or treated.

Just click “New Discussion” and select “Idea” or “Feature request” — should be the right place!

Hope this helps

[denismm]

Excellent, thank you very much!

[denismm]

That category doesn't seem to exist :/

[weyniis]

looks like GitHub has removed or restructured that category

As an alternative, u could try posting under:
👉 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/general

Just tag it clearly as a “Feature Request” or “Feedback” in your title, and describe the .ps file rendering issue — the team should still be monitoring those.

Hope this helps !

[denismm]

Opened as https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/156687 . Thanks for all the assistance today.