diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 7d5be40ba54..b87b24305e6 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 .github/ export-ignore
-hacking/ export-ignore
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index aff3d894239..7fb44ba1e6c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ else
 ASCII2MAN = @echo "ERROR: rst2man from docutils command is not installed but is required to build $(MANPAGES)" && exit 1
 endif
 
-PYTHON=python
+PYTHON ?= python
 GENERATE_CLI = hacking/build-ansible.py generate-man
 
 # fetch version from project release.py as single source-of-truth