Merge pull request #3636 from victor-gp/add-mapping-for-ignore-files

Add mapping for ignore files

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 - Add syntax highlighting support for COBOL, see #3584 (@adukhan99)
 - Fixed manpage syntax so that ANSI escape codes don't get incorrectly highlighted and thus broken, see #3586 (@BlueElectivire)
 - Map several Google Cloud CLI config files to their appropriate syntax #3635 (@victor-gp)
+- Map all ignore dotfiles to Git Ignore syntax #3636 (@victor-gp)
 
 ## Themes
 

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ users, please read the corresponding
 [documentation](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/doc/assets.md)
 first.
 
+To map a file name pattern to an existing syntax, read [the documentation here](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/src/syntax_mapping/builtins/README.md).
+
 Note: We are currently not accepting new default themes.
 
 

src/syntax_mapping/builtins/common/90-ignore-files.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[mappings]
+"Git Ignore" = [".?*ignore"]