diff --git a/git-gui/.gitattributes b/git-gui/.gitattributes
index 59cd41dbff..118d56cfbd 100644
--- a/git-gui/.gitattributes
+++ b/git-gui/.gitattributes
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 git-gui.sh  encoding=UTF-8
 /po/*.po    encoding=UTF-8
 /GIT-VERSION-GEN eol=lf
+Makefile    whitespace=!indent,trail,space