diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index ff96567ca54d..63161005c748 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 *.sgml		whitespace=space-before-tab,trailing-space,tab-in-indent,-blank-at-eol
 *.x[ms]l	whitespace=space-before-tab,trailing-space,tab-in-indent
 
+
 # Avoid confusing ASCII underlines with leftover merge conflict markers
 README		conflict-marker-size=32
 README.*	conflict-marker-size=32