diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index bb4a53bc..fcf55fd6 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ docs/*.php linguist-vendored
 *.pl linguist-vendored
 
 # And let's make sure that markdown is called that.
-*.md linguist-language=Markdown
+*.md linguist-detectable
+*.md linguist-language=markdown