From cb510f8336667e6448f074f766580290831388b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Stefl <stefl.andreas@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 06:01:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(repo): preserve binary files during line-ending
 normalization

---
 .gitattributes | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 78683bbd7..916fb751e 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-# Set the default behavior, in case people don't have core.autocrlf set.
-* text eol=lf
+# Normalize text while preserving binary files.
+* text=auto eol=lf
 
-# Explicitly declare text files you want to always be normalized and converted
-# to native line endings on checkout.
+# Normalize source files.
 *.c text
 *.h text
 *.py text
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@
 *.jpg binary
 *.pdf binary
 *.jar binary
-# the test fixtures the bindings carry: a zip container, which `* text eol=lf`
-# above would happily rewrite into an archive nothing can open
+# Document fixtures must retain their exact bytes.
 *.odt binary
 *.ods binary
+*.docx binary