Added .gitattributes to define how git handles the line endings

.gitattributes

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+# 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.
+*.java text
+
+# Declare files that will always have LF line endings on checkout.
+*.txt text eol=lf
+
+# Denote all files that are truly binary and should not be modified.
+*.png binary
+*.jpg binary