diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 43ea67c8..766584f4 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # By default, everything is text
-* text
+* text=auto
 
 # These must be unix EOLs
 *.sh             eol=lf