diff --git a/git/gitattributes b/git/gitattributes
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+*.css       diff=css
+*.go        diff=golang
+*.html      diff=html
+*.html.erb  diff=html
+*.md        diff=markdown
+*.py        diff=python
+*.rake      diff=ruby
+*.rb        diff=ruby