.gitattributes

# reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21302670/what-does-eol-in-gitattributes-do
# from the above link, notably text/binary attributes affect how file appears in the REPO and the eol attribute affects how file appears in WORKING DIRECTORY (checked-out)
# I believe !eol is the implicit setting which means checkout uses OS native line-endings (unless overriden by a user setting like core.autocrlf=true)

# default behaviour - have git auto-normalize line endings (set to LF) for files it thinks are text (unless overriden below by a specific pattern)
* text=auto