pulled in the gitattributes file from the deserialize branch

.gitattributes

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+# Set default behaviour, in case users don't have core.autocrlf set.
+* text=lf
+
+# Explicitly declare text files we want to always be normalized and converted
+# to native line endings on checkout.
+*.c text eol=lf
+*.h text eol=lf
+*.pl text eol=lf
+*.pm text eol=lf
+*.php text eol=lf
+*.t text eol=lf
+*.html text eol=lf
+
+# Declare files that will always have CRLF line endings on checkout.
+*.sln text eol=crlf
+
+# Denote all files that are truly binary and should not be modified.
+*.png binary
+*.jpg binary
+
+.gitattributes export-ignore
+.gitignore export-ignore