diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 364fd4d62..bab562313 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 *.bat text eol=crlf
 *.png binary
 *.xcf binary
-*.properties linguist-detectable=false
+*.properties linguist-generated