diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a964fa81..1f4c61e5 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 before_install:
   - git fetch origin master:master
   - git fetch origin v2.0.0:v2.0.0
-  - git fetch origin test/attributes:test/attributes
   - sudo apt-get install libicu-dev -y
 rvm:
   - 1.9.3
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 4d7b99c2..851fabc2 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 source 'https://rubygems.org'
 gemspec
-gem 'rugged', '0.21.1b1'
diff --git a/github-linguist.gemspec b/github-linguist.gemspec
index ff086b04..382b6cae 100644
--- a/github-linguist.gemspec
+++ b/github-linguist.gemspec
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency 'escape_utils',    '~> 1.0.1'
   s.add_dependency 'mime-types',      '~> 1.19'
   s.add_dependency 'pygments.rb',     '~> 0.6.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'rugged',          '~> 0.21.0'
 
   s.add_development_dependency 'json'
   s.add_development_dependency 'mocha'
diff --git a/lib/linguist/lazy_blob.rb b/lib/linguist/lazy_blob.rb
index c7031283..bb262241 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/lazy_blob.rb
+++ b/lib/linguist/lazy_blob.rb
@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
 require 'linguist/blob_helper'
-require 'linguist/language'
 require 'rugged'
 
 module Linguist
   class LazyBlob
-    GIT_ATTR = ['linguist-ignore', 'linguist-lang']
-    GIT_ATTR_OPTS = { :priority => [:index], :skip_system => true }
-    GIT_ATTR_FLAGS = Rugged::Repository::Attributes.parse_opts(GIT_ATTR_OPTS)
-
     include BlobHelper
 
     MAX_SIZE = 128 * 1024
@@ -24,25 +19,6 @@ module Linguist
       @mode = mode
     end
 
-    def git_attributes
-      @git_attributes ||= repository.fetch_attributes(
-        name, GIT_ATTR, GIT_ATTR_FLAGS)
-    end
-
-    def ignored?
-      !!git_attributes['linguist-ignore']
-    end
-
-    def overriden_language
-      if lang = git_attributes['linguist-lang']
-        Language.find_by_name(lang)
-      end
-    end
-
-    def language
-      @language ||= (overriden_language || Language.detect(self))
-    end
-
     def data
       load_blob!
       @data
diff --git a/lib/linguist/repository.rb b/lib/linguist/repository.rb
index 9e0b7f1e..a89c81e6 100644
--- a/lib/linguist/repository.rb
+++ b/lib/linguist/repository.rb
@@ -123,10 +123,6 @@ module Linguist
 
       diff = Rugged::Tree.diff(repository, old_tree, new_tree)
 
-      attr_index = Rugged::Index.new
-      attr_index.read_tree(new_tree)
-      repository.index = attr_index
-
       diff.each_delta do |delta|
         old = delta.old_file[:path]
         new = delta.new_file[:path]
@@ -142,7 +138,7 @@ module Linguist
           blob = Linguist::LazyBlob.new(repository, delta.new_file[:oid], new, mode.to_s(8))
 
           # Skip vendored or generated blobs
-          next if blob.ignored? || blob.vendored? || blob.generated? || blob.language.nil?
+          next if blob.vendored? || blob.generated? || blob.language.nil?
 
           # Only include programming languages and acceptable markup languages
           if blob.language.type == :programming || Language.detectable_markup.include?(blob.language.name)
diff --git a/test/test_repository.rb b/test/test_repository.rb
index 4f7b938e..f4c5ad70 100644
--- a/test/test_repository.rb
+++ b/test/test_repository.rb
@@ -47,18 +47,4 @@ class TestRepository < Test::Unit::TestCase
 
     assert_equal linguist_repo.cache, new_repo.cache
   end
-
-  def test_git_attributes
-    attr_commit = '525304738ebdb7ab3b7d2bf9a7514cc428faa273'
-    repo = linguist_repo(attr_commit)
-
-    assert repo.breakdown_by_file.has_key?("Java")
-    assert repo.breakdown_by_file["Java"].include?("lib/linguist.rb")
-
-    assert repo.breakdown_by_file.has_key?("Ruby")
-    assert !repo.breakdown_by_file["Ruby"].empty?
-    repo.breakdown_by_file["Ruby"].each do |file|
-      assert !file.start_with?("test/")
-    end
-  end
 end