diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
index b196293d0b3..35ccd571792 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/pom.xml
@@ -493,6 +493,7 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
           <excludes>
             <exclude>CHANGES.txt</exclude>
             <exclude>CHANGES.HDFS-1623.txt</exclude>
+            <exclude>.gitattributes</exclude>
             <exclude>.idea/**</exclude>
             <exclude>src/main/conf/*</exclude>
             <exclude>src/main/docs/**</exclude>