diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 3df8366..a0bea35 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@
 # them to avoid a spurious whole-file diff every time the solution is opened.
 *.sln text eol=crlf
 
-# Captured git diff output, kept exactly as git emitted it. A patch fixture mixes LF
-# structural lines with CRLF content lines by design, testing that the parser leaves
-# carriage returns alone, so eol normalization above would corrupt the very bytes the
-# test asserts on.
-GitIntegration.Test/Fixtures/patch-*.txt -text
-
 ###############################
 # Git Large File System (LFS) #
 ###############################
diff --git a/GitIntegration.Test/Fixtures/.gitattributes b/GitIntegration.Test/Fixtures/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b58f77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/GitIntegration.Test/Fixtures/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Captured git diff output, kept exactly as git emitted it. A patch fixture mixes LF
+# structural lines with CRLF content lines by design, testing that the parser leaves
+# carriage returns alone, so the repository's eol normalization would corrupt the very
+# bytes the test asserts on.
+#
+# This lives here rather than in the root .gitattributes because ktsu.Sdk regenerates the
+# root file on every build, which would silently drop the rule.
+patch-*.txt -text