diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 8b79783fa..5286feedd 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 * text=auto
 
 # we don't want json files to be modified for this project
-*.json binary 
+*.json binary diff=astextplain
 
 
 # Common settings that generally should always be used with your language specific settings