Update .gitattributes

Author: jakoch

.gitattributes

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-* text=auto eol=lf
-*.{cmd,[cC][mM][dD]} text eol=crlf
-*.{bat,[bB][aA][tT]} text eol=crlf
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Normalize line endings
+#    - text=auto will convert CRLF to LF in the repo, and back to CRLF on checkout for Windows users
+#    - eol=lf forces LF on all platforms.
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-*.bin binary
+*               text=auto
 
-.gitignore export-ignore
-.gitattributes export-ignore
+*.md            text eol=lf
+*.sh            text eol=lf
+
+*.ps1           text eol=crlf
+*.bat           text eol=crlf
+*.cmd           text eol=crlf
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Mark certain filetypes explicitly as binary
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+*.png           binary
+*.jpg           binary
+*.jpeg          binary
+*.gif           binary
+*.ico           binary
+*.pdf           binary
+*.zip           binary
+
+# Compiled Object files
+*.slo           binary
+*.lo            binary
+*.o             binary
+*.obj           binary
+
+# Precompiled Headers
+*.gch           binary
+*.pch           binary
+
+# Compiled Dynamic libraries
+*.so            binary
+*.dylib         binary
+*.dll           binary
+
+# Compiled Static libraries
+*.lai           binary
+*.la            binary
+*.a             binary
+*.lib           binary
+
+# Executables
+*.exe           binary
+*.out           binary
+*.app           binary
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Custom diff/merge drivers
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+*.c             text diff=cpp
+*.cc            text diff=cpp
+*.cxx           text diff=cpp
+*.cpp           text diff=cpp
+*.cpi           text diff=cpp
+*.c++           text diff=cpp
+*.hpp           text diff=cpp
+*.h             text diff=cpp
+*.h++           text diff=cpp
+*.hh            text diff=cpp
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Export‐ignore
+# - This excludes from `git archive` (useful when building tarballs)
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+.gitignore      export-ignore
+docs/**         export-ignore
+tests/**        export-ignore
+.github/**      export-ignore
+.vscode/**      export-ignore
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# GitHub Linguist overrides
+# - This forces files to count (or not) towards language stats.
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+*.md            linguist-documentation
+*.yml           linguist-language=YAML
+*.ui            linguist-generated
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Qt specific
+#    Treat .ui & .qrc files as text (so merges and diffs make sense)
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+*.ui            text
+*.qrc           text
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# CMake specific
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+CMakeLists.txt  text=auto