diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 1768272e..ddea4b07 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// All html files are fixtures, so marking as vendored
-// so Linguist (https://github.com/github/linguist)
-// ignores them for the purpose of language detection
+# All html files are fixtures, so marking as vendored
+# so Linguist (https://github.com/github/linguist)
+# ignores them for the purpose of language detection
 *.html linguist-vendored