diff --git a/t/.gitattributes b/t/.gitattributes
index 9930e28351..b9cea1795d 100644
--- a/t/.gitattributes
+++ b/t/.gitattributes
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ t[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/* -whitespace
 /t7500/* eol=lf
 /t8005/*.txt eol=lf
 /t9*/*.dump eol=lf
+/t0040*.sh whitespace=-indent-with-non-tab