End of Line character management - .gitattributes ?

[ChrisNolan]

I did my first modification to the source today - go me! 🎉

One of the challenges I experienced setting up my development environment (following this document ) was my local machine by default checked out the scripts with 'CRLF', but when I went to run those scripts inside of the docker container, it errored because of the "\r"s that were in there.

I was able to resolve this by git config core.autocrlf input and re-checking out the project.

How do people feel though about setting up a ".gitattributes" file that could 'force' these types of settings on the project as a whole?
This is 'new' to me, but when i was looking into how to resolve my issue it was suggested that using this file was a common practice? Some templates are here if you'd like to review.

Here is a blog post about .gitattributes for consideration as well.

[danh91]

I'm not too familiar with that but if it helps, I'm all for it.