diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index ab5d54a..bb96175 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/exasol/saas/client/openapi/*  linguist-generated=true
+/exasol/saas/client/openapi/**  linguist-generated=true
diff --git a/exasol/saas/__init__.py b/exasol/saas/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/exasol/saas/client/openapi/__init__.py b/exasol/saas/client/openapi/__init__.py
index 927a20b..c449ca5 100644
--- a/exasol/saas/client/openapi/__init__.py
+++ b/exasol/saas/client/openapi/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-"empty file"
+"""
+openapi-python-client will replace all files and folders in this directory
+recursively.
+"""
diff --git a/exasol/saas/client/openapi/models/__init__.py b/exasol/saas/client/openapi/models/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 477e9dd..0000000
--- a/exasol/saas/client/openapi/models/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-"generated file"