Unity repository detected as ShaderLab instead of C#

[wapcrazut]

Hello, I'm having a problem similar to this old issue: #5117

My Unity repository is detected as ShaderLab because there is an Assets/TextMesh Pro/ directory with some code in it.

Since that directory is created by a dependency I wanted to ignore it using the .gitatributtes config of my repository

# linguist overrides
Assets/TextMesh?Pro/* linguist-vendored

However, the configuration from above does not seem to be working, because the repository is still detected as ShaderLab I also waited a few days with other repositories but the issue persists.

Am I missing something?

Thank you in advance.

[lildude]

Your current override isn't sufficient. It's only covering the files directly in that directory. You need to use /** to recurse into the sub-directories.

From the .gitattributes doc:

The rules by which the pattern matches paths are the same as in .gitignore files (see gitignore[5]), with a few exceptions:

• negative patterns are forbidden
• patterns that match a directory do not recursively match paths inside that directory (so using the trailing-slash path/ syntax is pointless in an attributes file; use path/** instead)

From the .gitignore doc:

An asterisk "*" matches anything except a slash. The character "?" matches any one character except "/". The range notation, e.g. [a-zA-Z], can be used to match one of the characters in a range. See fnmatch(3) and the FNM_PATHNAME flag for a more detailed description.

... and ...

A trailing "/**" matches everything inside. For example, "abc/**" matches all files inside directory "abc", relative to the location of the .gitignore file, with infinite depth.

[wapcrazut]

I was doubting that single * but didn't try to change it.
It worked, thank you for all the references @lildude 🏅