diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index d23b35e..ad92d6d 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 *.[ch] citus-style
-/data/customer_reviews_1998.csv filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/data/.gitattributes b/data/.gitattributes
deleted file mode 100644
index 79ca7c3..0000000
--- a/data/.gitattributes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/data/customer_reviews_1998.csv filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/test_data_provider b/test_data_provider
index 2dc89cd..1d2f6b8 100755
--- a/test_data_provider
+++ b/test_data_provider
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -eu
+
 if [ ! -f ./data/customer_reviews_1998.csv ]; then
+    mkdir -p data
     cd ./data
     curl -L http://examples.citusdata.com/customer_reviews_1998.csv.gz > customer_reviews_1998.csv.gz
     gzip -d customer_reviews_1998.csv