From c24a9f824440aa5eacc8279339a2b433f5bcf44e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Diehl <m.diehl@mpie.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:47:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] should be in the root directory

---
 .gitattributes | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitattributes

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8035e26a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# from https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/
+#
+# always use LF, even if the files are edited on windows, they need to be compiled/used on unix
+* text eol=lf
+
+# Denote all files that are truly binary and should not be modified.
+*.png binary
+*.jpg binary