diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index c534ae0e0..d5bce4e9b 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-boot/ linguist-generated=false
+boot/** -linguist-generated
 **/tiddlywiki.files linguist-language=JSON
 **/tiddlywiki.info linguist-language=JSON
 **/plugin.info linguist-language=JSON
\ No newline at end of file