diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 7f24a8f81d..8ddae6fce4 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 template linguist-language=bash
 common/shlibs merge=union
+*.patch whitespace=-space-before-tab,-trailing-space
+*.diff whitespace=-space-before-tab,-trailing-space