diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index cc5783f111..b51a39ac77 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Explicitly declare text files you want to always be normalized and converted
 # to native line endings on checkout.
 *.c text
-*.h binary
+*.h text
 *.txt text
 *.xsd text
 *.pdsc text