diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 3a4406b8..671f86ba 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,70 +1,60 @@
-###############################################################################
 # Set default behavior to automatically normalize line endings.
-###############################################################################
 * text=auto
 
-###############################################################################
-# Set default behavior for command prompt diff.
-#
-# This is need for earlier builds of msysgit that does not have it on by
-# default for csharp files.
-# Note: This is only used by command line
-###############################################################################
-*.cs     diff=csharp
+# Collapse these files in PRs by default
+*.xlf linguist-generated=true
+*.lcl linguist-generated=true
 
-###############################################################################
-# Set the merge driver for project and solution files
-#
-# Merging from the command prompt will add diff markers to the files if there
-# are conflicts (Merging from VS is not affected by the settings below, in VS
-# the diff markers are never inserted). Diff markers may cause the following 
-# file extensions to fail to load in VS. An alternative would be to treat
-# these files as binary and thus will always conflict and require user
-# intervention with every merge. To do so, just uncomment the entries below
-###############################################################################
-#*.sln       merge=binary
-#*.csproj    merge=binary
-#*.vbproj    merge=binary
-#*.vcxproj   merge=binary
-#*.vcproj    merge=binary
-#*.dbproj    merge=binary
-#*.fsproj    merge=binary
-#*.lsproj    merge=binary
-#*.wixproj   merge=binary
-#*.modelproj merge=binary
-#*.sqlproj   merge=binary
-#*.wwaproj   merge=binary
-
-###############################################################################
-# behavior for image files
-#
-# image files are treated as binary by default.
-###############################################################################
-#*.jpg   binary
-#*.png   binary
-#*.gif   binary
-
-###############################################################################
-# diff behavior for common document formats
-# 
-# Convert binary document formats to text before diffing them. This feature
-# is only available from the command line. Turn it on by uncommenting the 
-# entries below.
-###############################################################################
-#*.doc   diff=astextplain
-#*.DOC   diff=astextplain
-#*.docx  diff=astextplain
-#*.DOCX  diff=astextplain
-#*.dot   diff=astextplain
-#*.DOT   diff=astextplain
-#*.pdf   diff=astextplain
-#*.PDF   diff=astextplain
-#*.rtf   diff=astextplain
-#*.RTF   diff=astextplain
+*.jpg  	binary
+*.png 	binary
+*.gif 	binary
 
 # Force bash scripts to always use lf line endings so that if a repo is accessed
 # in Unix via a file share from Windows, the scripts will work.
+*.in text eol=lf
 *.sh text eol=lf
 
-# Force the docs to always use lf line endings
-docs/**/*.xml text eol=lf
\ No newline at end of file
+# Likewise, force cmd and batch scripts to always use crlf
+*.cmd text eol=crlf
+*.bat text eol=crlf
+
+*.cs text=auto diff=csharp
+*.vb text=auto
+*.resx text=auto
+*.c text=auto
+*.cpp text=auto
+*.cxx text=auto
+*.h text=auto
+*.hxx text=auto
+*.py text=auto
+*.rb text=auto
+*.java text=auto
+*.html text=auto
+*.htm text=auto
+*.css text=auto
+*.scss text=auto
+*.sass text=auto
+*.less text=auto
+*.js text=auto
+*.lisp text=auto
+*.clj text=auto
+*.sql text=auto
+*.php text=auto
+*.lua text=auto
+*.m text=auto
+*.asm text=auto
+*.erl text=auto
+*.fs text=auto
+*.fsx text=auto
+*.hs text=auto
+
+*.csproj text=auto
+*.vbproj text=auto
+*.fsproj text=auto
+*.dbproj text=auto
+*.sln text=auto eol=crlf
+
+# Set linguist language for .h files explicitly based on
+# https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/1626#issuecomment-401442069
+# this only affects the repo's language statistics
+*.h linguist-language=C