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+#Try to avoid mixed linefeeds in our repo
+# Set the default behavior, in case people don't have core.autocrlf set.
+# (check out and in automatically according to OS)
+* text=auto
+
+# Explicitly declare text files you want to always be normalized and converted
+# to native line endings on checkout.
+#*.html text
+#*.htm text