diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 1c18a0a4d..364fd4d62 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@
 *.bat text eol=crlf
 *.png binary
 *.xcf binary
+*.properties linguist-detectable=false
+