diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 2f9e769c26..a0a624af04 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 
 # force changelog merging to use union
 html/changelog.html merge=union
+
+# force all files to be LF 
+* text=auto