diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index fa1385d99a..ab4772b9c6 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 * -text
+*.patch whitespace=-indent-with-non-tab,-space-before-tab,-tab-in-indent,-trailing-space