diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 2c9770c278..1a5fcdfd81 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -4,6 +4,5 @@
 *js text eol=lf
 tests/staticfiles_tests/apps/test/static/test/*txt text eol=lf
 tests/staticfiles_tests/project/documents/test/*txt text eol=lf
-docs/releases/*.txt merge=union
 # Make GitHub syntax-highlight .html files as Django templates
 *.html linguist-language=django