.gitattributes

Property	Value
description	Starter Git attributes file for line endings and archive exports.
tags	lib, git, github
rating

Human: 2 - AI-heavy

Majority AI-generated. Human reviewed, but structure and content were largely AI-driven.

Overview

Use this as a starter .gitattributes file for Git repositories that need predictable line endings and cleaner release archives.

It does two things:

• Excludes local/project-maintenance files from git archive exports with export-ignore.
• Normalizes text files with Git and forces LF endings for common source/config file types.

If needed, run after adding .gitattributes:

git add --renormalize .
git commit -m "Normalize line endings"

Variants

General

Add Macro

Add git-gitattributes macro.

# Export Ignore (exclude from git archive / releases)

/.github            export-ignore
/.gitignore         export-ignore
/.gitattributes     export-ignore

README.md           export-ignore
readme.txt          export-ignore

node_modules        export-ignore
vendor              export-ignore

.env                export-ignore
.env.local          export-ignore

.DS_Store           export-ignore
Thumbs.db           export-ignore

# Line Ending Normalization

*                   text=auto

# Force LF for Text Source Files

*.md                text eol=lf
*.mdx               text eol=lf
*.txt               text eol=lf

*.html              text eol=lf
*.css               text eol=lf
*.scss              text eol=lf

*.js                text eol=lf
*.jsx               text eol=lf
*.ts                text eol=lf
*.tsx               text eol=lf

*.php               text eol=lf

*.json              text eol=lf
*.jsonc             text eol=lf
*.yml               text eol=lf
*.yaml              text eol=lf
*.xml               text eol=lf

*.ps1               text eol=lf
*.psm1              text eol=lf
*.psd1              text eol=lf
*.sh                text eol=lf