diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 1fdb94741..8072a3ab3 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
 /.builds export-ignore
 /.builds/* export-ignore
 # to make cargo vendor work correctly
-/.cargo/config.toml
+/.cargo/ export-ignore
+/.cargo/config.toml export-ignore
 
 # for linguist, which drives GitHub's language statistics
 alpine.js linguist-vendored