.gitattributes

# Every file this repository tracks is text, and one of them is hashed byte
# for byte: cairn.corpus.fingerprint() reads each corpus document with
# path.read_bytes() specifically so a whitespace edit moves the fingerprint —
# see its docstring. That hash is only stable across machines if the bytes
# Git checks out are the same bytes on every machine, and without this file
# they are not: a platform whose Git defaults to converting LF to CRLF on
# checkout (Windows, commonly) hands `read_bytes()` a longer file than Linux
# or macOS does for the identical commit, and the fingerprint — along with
# anything that depends on it staying put, including the committed evidence
# bundle at plumbline/bundle/ — differs by platform for content that never
# changed.
#
# `eol=lf` overrides that per-checkout setting for every text file this
# repository tracks, so the bytes on disk are the bytes in the commit,
# everywhere. There is nothing binary in this repository to exempt.
* text=auto eol=lf