adding more information to attributes file

.gitattributes

@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@
 # preferred and mitigates potential problems with end of line (eol) character differences.
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-# Set the default end of line behavior (i.e. normalization to `lf` upon commit) for all files git recognizes as text
-# Note that this *only* applies to newly commited files.  If the file previously existed with a `crlf` end of file
-# and was checked out to local, then git will not change the eol character during check in (i.e. commit).
+## Set the default end of line behavior (i.e. normalization to `lf` upon commit) for all files git recognizes as text
 * text=auto
 
-# Explicitly declare to git which files should be normalized (i.e. treated as text files)
+# Note that the above *only* applies to newly commited files.  If the file previously existed with a `crlf` end of file
+# and was checked out to local, then git will not change the eol character during check-in (i.e. commit).  For 
+# windows users they will see a warning like this:
+# warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in functional_unit_testing/allometry/drive_allomtests.py.
+# The file will have its original line endings in your working directory
+
+## Explicitly declare to git which files should be normalized (i.e. treated as text files)
 *.cdl text
 *.F90 text
 *.F90_in text
@@ -21,5 +25,5 @@
 *.txt text
 *.xml text
 
-# Declare to git which file types are binary files and should not have end of line modified
+## Declare to git which file types are binary files and should not have end of line modified
 *.mod binary