diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index c739a43a82f..0f392e18679 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -3,3 +3,7 @@
 .gitattributes export-ignore
 .gitignore export-ignore
 .mailmap export-ignore
+
+# Tell linguist that generated test pattern files should not be included in the
+# language statistics.
+*.pat linguist-generated=true