diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index f96112d47f..33d07c06bd 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+*           whitespace=indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,space-before-tab,tabwidth=4
 *           encoding=US-ASCII
 git-gui.sh  encoding=UTF-8
 /po/*.po    encoding=UTF-8