diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 0e701f7..cbd96ee 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@
 
 # add,bind,close,commit,delete,flush,rollback are for SQLAlchemy's
 # scoped_session implementation, which uses __call__ to pass the call
-# to a backing instance
+# to a backing instance. We always call instances of scoped_session
+# `session` or `SESSION`. Unfortunately due to
+# https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/1167 we cannot use regexes
+# like `(session|SESSION)\.add` here.
 
 # secure_filename is from werkzeug, which lazy loads functions from
-# submodules
+# submodules.
 
 # get_object,set_target,shorthand,target are for some kind of
-# shenanigans going on with flask and werkzeug proxying and pygit2
+# shenanigans going on with flask and werkzeug proxying and pygit2.
+# We always call the object `head`, in this case, it seems.
 
 # GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_SHARED_GROUP is for a constant we get from
 # pygit2; we could use:
@@ -18,5 +22,25 @@
 # and avoid the pylint error, but per
 # https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2/issues/483
 # that only works since a commit in early 2015 which may be too new
-# to be safe
-generated-members=GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_SHARED_GROUP,add,bind,close,commit,delete,flush,get_object,rollback,secure_filename,set_target,shorthand,target
+# to be safe.
+
+generated-members=pygit2\.C\.GIT_REPOSITORY_INIT_SHARED_GROUP,
+                  .*session\.add,
+                  .*SESSION\.add,
+                  .*session\.bind,
+                  .*SESSION\.bind,
+                  .*session\.close,
+                  .*SESSION\.close,
+                  .*session\.commit,
+                  .*SESSION\.commit,
+                  .*session\.delete,
+                  .*SESSION\.delete,
+                  .*session\.flush,
+                  .*SESSION\.flush,
+                  .*session\.rollback,
+                  .*SESSION\.rollback,
+                  .*head\.get_object,
+                  .*head\.set_target,
+                  .*head\.shorthand,
+                  .*head\.target,
+                  werkzeug\.secure_filename,