.gitattributes

# Car Rental Database Management System - Academic Repository
# Professional .gitattributes for scholarly archiving

# Set default behavior to automatically normalize line endings
* text=auto

# Ensure text and source files use LF on checkout
*.md text eol=lf
*.php text eol=lf
*.sql text eol=lf
*.css text eol=lf
*.js text eol=lf
*.cff text eol=lf
*.json text eol=lf
.gitattributes text eol=lf
.gitignore text eol=lf
LICENSE text eol=lf

# Explicitly mark binary files
*.png binary
*.jpg binary
*.jpeg binary
*.gif binary
*.ico binary
*.pdf binary
*.ttf binary
*.woff binary
*.woff2 binary

# Improve diff handling
*.md text diff=markdown
*.php text diff=php
*.sql text diff=sql

# Language Detection - Focus on Source Code
docs/** linguist-vendored
Mini-Project/** linguist-vendored
CITATION.cff linguist-vendored
codemeta.json linguist-vendored
LICENSE linguist-vendored
SECURITY.md linguist-vendored