diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index f42d752c9..2e5077856 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -10,5 +10,10 @@
 # go fmt will enforce this, but in case a user has not called "go fmt" allow GIT to catch this:
 *.go      text eol=lf core.whitespace whitespace=indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,tabwidth=4
 
+*.txt     text eol=lf core.whitespace whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=2
+*.tpl     text eol=lf core.whitespace whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=2
+*.htm     text eol=lf core.whitespace whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=2
+*.html    text eol=lf core.whitespace whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=2
+*.md      text eol=lf core.whitespace whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=2
 *.yml     text eol=lf core.whitespace whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space,tabwidth=2
 .git*     text eol=auto core.whitespace whitespace=trailing-space