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+*.bazel linguist-language=Starlark
+
+# TODO: remove once https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/pull/7121 lands
+WORKSPACE.bzlmod linguist-language=Starlark
+
+# .bazelrc are mostly a collection of the CLI arguments, so highlighting them
+# as shell scripts looks quite alright and makes them quite readable
+.bazelrc linguist-language=Shell