diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 320e33c327..8ce9c6b888 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 * whitespace=!indent,trail,space
 *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
-*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space
+*.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf
+*.perl eol=lf
+*.pm eol=lf
+/Documentation/git-*.txt eol=lf
+/command-list.txt eol=lf
+/GIT-VERSION-GEN eol=lf
+/mergetools/* eol=lf
diff --git a/git-gui/.gitattributes b/git-gui/.gitattributes
index 33d07c06bd..59cd41dbff 100644
--- a/git-gui/.gitattributes
+++ b/git-gui/.gitattributes
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 *           encoding=US-ASCII
 git-gui.sh  encoding=UTF-8
 /po/*.po    encoding=UTF-8
+/GIT-VERSION-GEN eol=lf