diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 6cc32a6ac..b3b55ea10 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@
 
 *.py linguist-detectable=true
 *.nb linguist-detectable=false
+
+hosts linguist-detectable linguist-language=hosts