.gitattributes

# Check every text file out as LF on every platform.
#
# Without this, Git's default on Windows (core.autocrlf=true) rewrites text
# files to CRLF at checkout time. The bytes stored in the repository are LF
# either way, so this is invisible in diffs -- but anything that HASHES a file
# on disk sees different content depending on which OS checked it out, and this
# repo hashes a lot of files on disk:
#
#   - scripts/buildAssetHashes.ts content-addresses everything under resources/
#     into asset-manifest.json and the desktop release descriptor. 1192 files
#     under resources/ are CRLF-converted on a Windows checkout, so a Windows
#     build emits different hashed filenames for byte-identical content.
#   - The same script hashes src/core to produce coreVersion, served from
#     /desktop/version.json. All 138 files there are CRLF-converted, so a
#     Windows build reports a core version no Linux build ever produces.
#
# Measured on the same commit (bd7e83ad5): Linux and macOS CI both emit
# core ab08220a8dc0, matching the deployed descriptor exactly, while Windows CI
# emits 34fc175e3b67. The practical cost lands on the Steam desktop client,
# whose Windows depot then shares almost no content-addressed assets with the
# CDN: a fresh install has no active release pointer, so it always runs a
# download plan, and on Windows that plan is 1186 files / 61 MB of assets it
# already shipped with -- versus effectively nothing on Linux and macOS.
#
# text=auto keeps Git's binary detection, so maps, images and audio are still
# left untouched; only files Git already treats as text are normalised.
* text=auto eol=lf