diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 49b30516419c8d..acf853e0299463 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 *.pl eof=lf diff=perl
 *.pm eol=lf diff=perl
 *.py eol=lf diff=python
-/Documentation/git-*.txt eol=lf
+/Documentation/**/*.txt eol=lf
 /command-list.txt eol=lf
 /GIT-VERSION-GEN eol=lf
 /mergetools/* eol=lf