diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
deleted file mode 100644
index b4f794151..000000000
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-**/api-extractor.json  linguist-language=JSON-with-Comments
-
diff --git a/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.gitattributes b/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.gitattributes
index d4f4169b2..33739cb74 100644
--- a/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.gitattributes
+++ b/synthtool/gcp/templates/node_library/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 *.ts text eol=lf
 *.js text eol=lf
 protos/* linguist-generated
+**/api-extractor.json  linguist-language=JSON-with-Comments