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