File type selection without extension possible?

[Gen2ly]

Is it possible to select the language without having to use the extension? I noticed by accident that I can do this by doing:

jist -p -d "example description" -f file.sh file

and then pushing it:

git init
git remote add reponame git@gist.github.com:<number>.git
git add file
git commit -a -m "message"
git push --force reponame master

where file is the filename without the extension. and by doing this, I am able to get syntaxhighlighting without the extension example.

Because of this I was wondering if it was possible, or could this just be a loophole?

[kyrylo]

I cannot reproduce this.

When I do jist -d "example description" -f file.sh file, I create a gist with the name of file.sh and with Shell syntax highlighting. Next, when I initialize a git repository and push file to reponame, my gist changes, so its filename becomes file and Shell syntax highlighting disappears. I get no highlighting at all.

[ConradIrwin]

@Gen2ly This would be very useful! Unfortunately the ability is not exposed via the API that jist is using (http://developer.github.com/v3/gists/). The auto-detection done by "git push"ing to the remote looks pretty buggy (in your example it's highlighted the file as Perl —search for "language": https://api.github.com/gists/3242078) so I don't really want to make jist use this directly.

If you can think of a reliable way to do it, please do re-open the issue.