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+# Set the default behavior, in case people don't have core.autocrlf set.
+* text=auto
+
+# Explicitly declare plain text files you want to always be normalized and converted
+# to native line endings on checkout.
+*.json text eol=lf
+*.md text eol=lf
\ No newline at end of file