diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index d8f6caa99..745bc27a1 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -15,6 +15,3 @@
 *.PDF	 diff=astextplain
 *.rtf	 diff=astextplain
 *.RTF	 diff=astextplain
-
-# Apply Python syntax highlighting to berry (.be) files
-*.be linguist-language=Python