Coq has been renamed into the Rocq Prover.#7297
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- Remove the .coq extension. This extension is not officially supported and has been marginally used: https://github.com/search?type=code&q=NOT+is%3Afork+path%3A*.v+language%3ACoq reports 780k files while https://github.com/search?type=code&q=NOT+is%3Afork+path%3A*.coq+language%3ACoq reports 200 files (and some of them are even misclassified Makefile or LICENSE files).
We never remove support for an extension. Once included, it remains, regardless of whether it's an official extension or not or a project decides to drop support for an extension. Why? Because files with those extensions will almost certainly always exist on GitHub and we don't want to degrade this experience if we can avoid it, regardless of how small.
Please put back the .coq extension.
🤨 I'm not sure what you changed as you rewrote your history (we don't care about all the commits you may use in a PR as we squash commits on merging) but you've still not added the If it's no longer correct to have it as the primary extension, by all means put it after the |
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Thanks for catching that, and my apologies for the mistake (I did a I also changed the order of the extension as you recommended, since indeed |
- Change the name of the language to Rocq Prover. - Add a new key for code blocks while preserving the coq one for backward compatibility. This commit does not yet: - Change the color associated with the language (will be done after consulting with the community). - Change the grammar used for the language (a new official grammar using the Rocq Prover colors is expected to be published, but it is not yet available).

Context: https://rocq-prover.org/about#Name
The old official website https://coq.inria.fr/ now redirects to https://rocq-prover.org/.
I'm part of the official core team of the Rocq Prover (https://rocq-prover.org/rocq-team/core).
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Remove the .coq extension. This extension is not officially supported and has been marginally used: https://github.com/search?type=code&q=NOT+is%3Afork+path%3A*.v+language%3ACoq reports 780k files while https://github.com/search?type=code&q=NOT+is%3Afork+path%3A*.coq+language%3ACoq reports 200 files (and some of them are even misclassified Makefile or LICENSE files).This commit does not yet:
Checklist:
I am adding a new extension to a language.
I am adding a new language.
#RRGGBBI am fixing a misclassified language
I am changing the source of a syntax highlighting grammar
I am updating a grammar submodule
I am adding new or changing current functionality
I am changing the color associated with a language