diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 8ce9c6b8888fe6..482af05a6a37c5 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space diff=cpp
 *.sh whitespace=indent,trail,space eol=lf
 *.perl eol=lf
+*.pl eof=lf
 *.pm eol=lf
 /Documentation/git-*.txt eol=lf
 /command-list.txt eol=lf