diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index b9db4344e..cbcea2c8b 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ crates/tui/src/prompts/**/*.md text eol=lf
 crates/tui/src/prompts/*.md text eol=lf
 crates/tui/src/prompts/*.txt text eol=lf
 
+# The rest of the include_str!() inputs. `* text=auto` below converts these to
+# CRLF on a Windows checkout, which is invisible for the ones that are only
+# parsed or substring-matched and fatal for the one that is compared byte for
+# byte: crates/telemetry/tests/golden/v1.json is asserted against
+# serde_json::to_string_pretty output, which always emits LF, so Windows CI
+# failed `golden_payload_v1` with a pure \r\n diff.
+crates/telemetry/tests/golden/*.json text eol=lf
+crates/*/assets/**/*.json text eol=lf
+crates/*/assets/**/*.md text eol=lf
+crates/*/locales/*.json text eol=lf
+workflows/*.js text eol=lf
+
 # Rustfmt writes LF; keep Rust sources stable across Windows/Linux/macOS.
 *.rs text eol=lf