diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 15410b16b46..40a4005bf43 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -15,3 +15,6 @@
 # special files which must ignore whitespace
 *.patch      whitespace=-trailing-space eol=lf
 *.diff       whitespace=-trailing-space eol=lf
+
+# Ignore sql/* files
+sql/* linguist-documentation