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+# Properly detect languages
+*.h linguist-language=cpp
+*.inc linguist-language=cpp
+thirdparty/* linguist-vendored
+
+# Normalize EOL for all files that Git considers text files
+* text=auto eol=lf
+# Except for bat files, which are Windows only files
+*.bat eol=crlf
+# And some test files where the EOL matters
+*.test.txt -text
+
+# The above only works properly for Git 2.10+, so for older versions
+# we need to manually list the binary files we don't want modified.
+*.icns binary
+*.ico binary
+*.jar binary
+*.png binary
+*.ttf binary
+*.tza binary