diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
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-* text=auto
-* text eol=lf
+# More on Git Attributes: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
+
+# Auto identify text files & sets line endings to LF & sets charset to UTF-8 & fixes whitespaces
+* text=auto eol=lf working-tree-encoding=UTF-8 whitespace=fix
+
+# Git Archive exports only scripts
+.editorconfig export-ignore
+.gitattributes export-ignore
+.gitignore export-ignore
+*.md export-ignore
+
+# Add metadata to files
+*.sh export-subst
+
+# GitHub Specific Config
+*.md linguist-documentation
+.editorconfig linguist-language=INI
+.gitattributes linguist-language=INI
+.gitignore linguist-language=INI