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+# Based on GitHub sample: https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings
+
+# Set the default behavior, in case people don't have core.autocrlf set.
+* text=auto
+
+# Explicitly declare text files you want to always be normalized and converted
+# to native line endings on checkout.
+*.c text
+*.cpp text
+*.h text
+*.inl text
+*.txt text
+
+# Declare files that will always have CRLF line endings on checkout.
+#*.sln text eol=crlf
+
+# Denote all files that are truly binary and should not be modified.
+#*.png binary
+#*.jpg binary
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