diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 59135bfe3c..cbd25a6bf4 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# Always use LF instead of CRLF line endings
-* text eol=lf
+# Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization
+* text=auto
 # Set browser syntax highlighting for certain files
 *.inc linguist-language=gas
 *.seq linguist-language=gas