diff --git a/lib/linguist/generated.rb b/lib/linguist/generated.rb
index 339cca4e..a9ca4914 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/generated.rb
+++ b/lib/linguist/generated.rb
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ module Linguist
       generated_net_specflow_feature_file? ||
       composer_lock? ||
       node_modules? ||
+      go_vendor? ||
       npm_shrinkwrap? ||
       godeps? ||
       generated_by_zephir? ||
@@ -304,6 +305,14 @@ module Linguist
       !!name.match(/node_modules\//)
     end
 
+    # Internal: Is the blob part of the Go vendor/ tree,
+    # not meant for humans in pull requests.
+    #
+    # Returns true or false.
+    def go_vendor?
+      !!name.match(/vendor\/((?!-)[-0-9A-Za-z]+(?<!-)\.)+(com|edu|gov|in|me|net|org|fm|io)/)
+    end
+
     # Internal: Is the blob a generated npm shrinkwrap file.
     #
     # Returns true or false.
diff --git a/test/fixtures/go/food_vendor/candy.go b/test/fixtures/go/food_vendor/candy.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ce65385b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/go/food_vendor/candy.go
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+// empty file for testing that paths with vendor in them don't get ingored
diff --git a/test/test_blob.rb b/test/test_blob.rb
index 65b88ba4..588360ff 100644
--- a/test/test_blob.rb
+++ b/test/test_blob.rb
@@ -216,6 +216,11 @@ class TestBlob < Minitest::Test
     # Generated by Zephir
     assert !sample_blob_memory("Zephir/Router.zep").generated?
 
+    # Go vendored dependencies
+    refute sample_blob("vendor/vendor.json").generated?
+    assert sample_blob("vendor/github.com/kr/s3/sign.go").generated?
+    refute fixture_blob("go/food_vendor/candy.go").generated?
+
     # Cython-generated C/C++
     assert sample_blob_memory("C/sgd_fast.c").generated?
     assert sample_blob_memory("C++/wrapper_inner.cpp").generated?
diff --git a/test/test_generated.rb b/test/test_generated.rb
index d34f605b..db32e8f5 100644
--- a/test/test_generated.rb
+++ b/test/test_generated.rb
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ class TestGenerated < Minitest::Test
     generated_sample_without_loading_data("Dummy/foo.xcworkspacedata")
     generated_sample_without_loading_data("Dummy/foo.xcuserstate")
 
+    # Go-specific vendored paths
+    generated_sample_without_loading_data("go/vendor/github.com/foo.go")
+    generated_sample_without_loading_data("go/vendor/golang.org/src/foo.c")
+    generated_sample_without_loading_data("go/vendor/gopkg.in/some/nested/path/foo.go")
+
     # .NET designer file
     generated_sample_without_loading_data("Dummu/foo.designer.cs")