diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 509b366..5905b98 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -2,4 +2,9 @@
 *.h linguist-language=C++
 *.hpp linguist-language=C++
 *.cc linguist-language=C++
-*.html linguist-detectable=false 
\ No newline at end of file
+
+*.html linguist-detectable=false 
+*.tex linguist-detectable=false 
+
+# Exclude build/ directory from language stats
+doxygen/* linguist-ignore
\ No newline at end of file