Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GITATTRIBUTES file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert GITATTRIBUTES to another file type
To convert your GITATTRIBUTES file to another format, you need Git or other Developer software.
Convert a file to GITATTRIBUTES
To convert other file formats to the "Git Configuration File" file type, you need software like Git or a similar tool.
About GITATTRIBUTES files
A .gitattributes file is a simple text-based configuration file used by the Git version control system to assign specific attributes to pathnames. It is critical for defining how Git handles line endings (CRLF vs. LF), identifying binary files that shouldn't be diffed, and setting merge strategies for specific file types. While extremely useful for developers, these files are treated as "dotfiles" (hidden system files) by default on macOS and Linux, and often have no default application associated with them on Windows. This creates friction when you try to open one; the OS simply doesn't know what to do with it, or it remains invisible in your file explorer. Furthermore, because it lacks a traditional filename before the dot, some older software struggles to parse it. To make the contents accessible to non-developers or for documentation purposes, it is best to convert .gitattributes to TXT for universal readability in tools like Notepad or PDF for archiving repository rules without risk of accidental modification. For programmatic analysis of the rules, converting to JSON provides a structured format.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GITATTRIBUTES file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert GITATTRIBUTES file to JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB, GO, RS or SWIFT, you can use Git or similar software from the "Version Control Configuration" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to GITATTRIBUTES, try Git or another comparable tool in the "Version Control Configuration" category.
The GITATTRIBUTES Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our GITATTRIBUTES converter.