diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index ca9f2d73f..4354f3acb 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,9 +1,39 @@
-* text=auto eol=lf
+# Set the default behavior:
+# On checkout, the line endings will be normalized to the correct one for the OS
+# On commit, the line endings will be reset to lf
+* text=auto
 
-*.zip binary
+# Text Files
+*.txt text
+*.md text
+LICENSE text
+
+*.cfg text
+*.lang text
+
+*.bat text
+*.sh text
+
+*.json text
+*.yml text
+*.yaml text
+*.toml text
+
+*.js text
+*.ts text
+
+*.zs text
+*.groovy text
+
+*.xml text
+*.xsd text
+*.svg text
+
+# Binary Files
 *.png binary
 *.jpg binary
 *.jpeg binary
+*.pdf binary
 
 dumps/**/*.* linguist-generated=true
 *.log linguist-generated=true