Setting up to canonicalize EOL in the repo (.gitattributes) and ignore various kinds of files (.gitignore)

Author: djun-kim

.gitattributes

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+# Set default behaviour, in case users don't have core.autocrlf set.
+* text=auto
+
+# Explicitly declare text files we want to always be normalized and converted 
+# to native line endings on checkout.
+*.pg text
+*.pl text
+*.txt text
+*.htm text
+*.html text
+*.log text
+*.LOG text
+
+# 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
+*.gifjpg binary

.gitignore

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+*~
 blib/
 .build/
 _build/