diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9257775
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Set default behaviour, in case users don't have core.autocrlf set.
+* text=auto
+
+# Explicitly declare text files we want to always be normalized and converted 
+# to native line endings on checkout.
+*.sh text
+*.java text
+*.xml text
+*.js text
+*.css text
+*.svg text