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+# Algebra plugins library, part of the ACTS project (R&D line)
+#
+# (c) 2021-2023 CERN for the benefit of the ACTS project
+#
+# Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
+
+# Consider .sycl files as C++.
+*.sycl linguist-language=C++