Force line ending type for specific files

Different operation systems (Unix vs. Windows) use different line ending types.
It can easily happen that users from different systems edit files and replace
all line endings of a file with the system specific version. This screws up
diffs and makes merges harder.

Git can normalize line endings for specific files and avoid this problem.
Binary files should be marked to avoid accidentally normalization.

.gitattributes

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+* text=auto
+
+# normal text files
+*.6 text
+AUTHORS text
+*.c text
+*.cfg text
+*.cht text
+*.conf text
+COPYING text
+*.cpp text
+*.def text
+*-license text
+*.h text
+*.html text
+*.ini text
+INSTALL text
+LICENSES text
+Makefile text
+*.py text
+README text
+RELEASE text
+*.S text
+*.sh text
+*.txt text
+*.ver text
+
+# windows specific text files
+*.sln text eol=crlf
+*.vcproj text eol=crlf
+*.vcxproj text eol=crlf
+*.vcxproj.filters text eol=crlf
+
+# binary files
+*.gz binary
+*.ttf binary
+cursor.tex binary
+font.tex binary