diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 30a1f4834ca58efb61c147f3bd9d03396b9a704c..7762d72449bff7a8e6743fe06918cadec3ccf076 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -46,5 +46,4 @@ bin/release/aws-eb/metabase-aws-eb.zip
 /test-report-*
 /crate-*
 *.po~
-/resources/locales.clj
 /locales/metabase-*.pot
diff --git a/resources/locales.clj b/resources/locales.clj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d6d32c6f7d490b01522efc1df74ae5158e6d8ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/locales.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  :locales  #{"en" "de" }
+  :packages ["metabase"]
+  :bundle   "metabase.Messages"
+}