diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 3724dd9d..2657d942 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 borg/_version.py export-subst
 
 *.py diff=python
-docs/usage/* merge=ours
+docs/usage/*.rst.inc merge=ours
 docs/man/* merge=ours