Enforcing unix linebreaks for shell scripts (gcovr#538)

Author: Verequus

Diff for: .gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Declare that the script files will always have LF line endings on checkout.
+# Otherwise using cygwin and WSL to execute these will fail if checkout is done on Windows.
+*.sh text eol=lf

Diff for: AUTHORS.txt

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ The following developers contributed to gcovr (ordered alphabetically):
     Christian Taedcke,
     Dave George,
     Dom Postorivo,
+    Elektrobit Automotive GmbH,
     Ensky Lin,
     goriy,
     ja11sop,

Diff for: CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Improvements and new features:
 - Add function coverage metric (:issue:`362`)
 - Deactivate localization of gcov by setting LC_ALL=C instead of LC_ALL=en_US (:issue:`513`)
 - Don't use a temporary directory for running gcov (:issue:`525`)
+- Fix junctions on windows for Python 3.8 (:issue:`535`)
 
 Documentation:
 
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ Internal changes:
  - Activate symlink test for windows. (:issue:`539`)
  - Add test to install wheel. (:issue:`537`)
  - Add support for full path in environment CC. (:issue:`541`)
+ - Ensure that shell files are always checked out with LF linebreaks. (:issue:`538`)
 
 5.0 (11 June 2021)
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