diff --git a/ports/nrf/boards/feather52/bootloader/.gitattributes b/ports/nrf/boards/feather52/bootloader/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..608f8c345c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/nrf/boards/feather52/bootloader/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Inform git that .zip files should be treated as binary
+*.zip binary