From b55ec9fa21fa8bf581a5f2227dc5628c99b97c61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alex Pooley (@zuedev)" <zuedev@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 16:17:30 +0000
Subject: add .gitattributes and strip CRLF from schema loading

---
 .gitattributes              | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 validators/bash/validate.sh |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .gitattributes

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e644653
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Ensure consistent line endings (LF) for all text files
+* text=auto eol=lf
+
+# Explicitly mark certain files as text
+*.md text
+*.json text
+*.jsonc text
+*.gitinfo text
+*.yml text
+*.yaml text
+*.js text
+*.ps1 text
+*.sh text eol=lf
+
+# Shell scripts must always use LF
+validators/bash/*.sh text eol=lf
diff --git a/validators/bash/validate.sh b/validators/bash/validate.sh
index 201c0b7..dddb811 100644
--- a/validators/bash/validate.sh
+++ b/validators/bash/validate.sh
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ validate() {
         exit 1
     fi
     
-    # Load schema
+    # Load schema (also strip carriage returns for Windows compatibility)
     local schema
-    if ! schema=$(jq -c . "$SCHEMA_PATH" 2>&1); then
+    if ! schema=$(tr -d '\r' < "$SCHEMA_PATH" | jq -c . 2>&1); then
         echo -e "${RED}Error parsing schema: $schema${NC}" >&2
         exit 1
     fi
-- 
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