diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 89d74926f..4d2e4953c 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 static/jquery/* linguist-vendored
-static/semantic/* linguist-vendored
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+static/semantic/* linguist-vendored
+*.tpl linguist-language=HTML
\ No newline at end of file