diff --git a/makefile.locale b/makefile.locale
index 4e44860137c0da98883f8ca20595bbd842c4fcc7..1b1560997b13ebd2e8297e9b4f6f904b38a37292 100644
--- a/makefile.locale
+++ b/makefile.locale
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 vpath GIT-VERSION-FILE . ..
 
-MAN_FILTER = $(wildcard *.txt)
+MAN_FILTER = $(wildcard git-*.txt)
 HTML_FILTER = $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(MAN_FILTER))