README symlink shown as plain text despite vim modeline

[jwilk]

I have the following setup in many of my repositories:

1. doc/README is a document with a vim:ft=rst modeline. As expected, this is rendered by GitHub as reStructuredText.

2. Top-level README is a symlink to doc/README. This used to rendered by GitHub as reStructuredText until recently. But now it is shown as plain text. :-(

Examples:

• good (thanks to caching?)

• bad

I guess it might be an unintended consequence of fixing #1133?

[kiwiroy]

I'm seeing this too with a toplevel README.md that is a symlink through multiple subdirectories to another README.md and is displayed as plain text. There are no modelines in the target README.md and it is rendered correctly as markdown when viewing that directory.

[jwilk]

• good (thanks to caching?)

Oh well, this one is now bad, too. But I made archived copy back when it was still good.