diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5727d6143
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+$ cat .gitattributes
+* text=auto
+*.c3 linguist-language=C
+*.c3t linguist-language=C