diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 205021e49d..141615dc90 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 # Enforce Unix newlines
 * text=auto eol=lf
+
+benchmark/documents/* binary
+benchmark/jquery*.js binary
diff --git a/benchmark/.gitattributes b/benchmark/.gitattributes
deleted file mode 100644
index 79f1443cd9..0000000000
--- a/benchmark/.gitattributes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-documents/* binary
-jquery*.js binary