diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 35157cfda..8aa2a2385 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Go writes go.mod and go.sum with lf even on windows
+go.mod text eol=lf
+go.sum text eol=lf
+
 # Ignore generated files in GitHub language statistics and diffs
 /MANUAL.* linguist-generated=true
 /rclone.1 linguist-generated=true