diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index d440640bc..95bfe8cf0 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 /debian/* export-ignore
 /.github export-ignore
 /.github/* export-ignore
+/.builds export-ignore
+/.builds/* export-ignore
+/.travis.yml export-ignore
 
 # for linguist; let github identify our project as C++ instead of C due to pcre2
 /pcre2-10.32/ linguist-vendored