diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index b7d633295..d552647a1 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 /.travis.yml export-ignore
 
 # for linguist; let github identify our project as C++ instead of C due to pcre2
-/pcre2/* linguist-vendored
+pcre2/* linguist-vendored
 angular.js linguist-vendored
-/doc_src/* linguist-documentation
+doc_src/* linguist-documentation
 *.fish linguist-language=fish
-/tests/*.in linguist-language=fish
+src/*.h linguist-language=c++