diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 412eeda78d..3dffe847f8 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,22 +1,52 @@
-# Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization
-* text=auto
+### Check me into the root of the repo
+### as .gitattributes
 
-# Custom for Visual Studio
-*.cs     diff=csharp
-*.sln    merge=union
-*.csproj merge=union
-*.vbproj merge=union
-*.fsproj merge=union
-*.dbproj merge=union
-
-# Standard to msysgit
-*.doc	 diff=astextplain
-*.DOC	 diff=astextplain
-*.docx diff=astextplain
-*.DOCX diff=astextplain
-*.dot  diff=astextplain
-*.DOT  diff=astextplain
-*.pdf  diff=astextplain
-*.PDF	 diff=astextplain
-*.rtf	 diff=astextplain
-*.RTF	 diff=astextplain
+*.doc  diff=astextplain
+*.DOC   diff=astextplain
+*.docx  diff=astextplain
+*.DOCX  diff=astextplain
+*.dot   diff=astextplain
+*.DOT   diff=astextplain
+*.pdf   diff=astextplain
+*.PDF   diff=astextplain
+*.rtf   diff=astextplain
+*.RTF   diff=astextplain
+ 
+*.jpg binary
+*.png binary
+*.gif binary
+ 
+*.cs text=auto diff=csharp 
+*.vb text=auto
+*.c text=auto
+*.cpp text=auto
+*.cxx text=auto
+*.h text=auto
+*.hxx text=auto
+*.py text=auto
+*.rb text=auto
+*.java text=auto
+*.html text=auto
+*.htm text=auto
+*.css text=auto
+*.scss text=auto
+*.sass text=auto
+*.less text=auto
+*.js text=auto
+*.lisp text=auto
+*.clj text=auto
+*.sql text=auto
+*.php text=auto
+*.lua text=auto
+*.m text=auto
+*.asm text=auto
+*.erl text=auto
+*.fs text=auto
+*.fsx text=auto
+*.hs text=auto
+ 
+*.csproj text=auto merge=union 
+*.vbproj text=auto merge=union 
+*.fsproj text=auto merge=union 
+*.dbproj text=auto merge=union 
+*.sln -text merge=union
\ No newline at end of file