diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 2c3ead5a9..7e1e2899e 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 lib/WeBWorK/htdocs/** linguist-vendored
 public/** linguist-vendored
+*.pl linguist-language=Perl