updated main readme and added gitattributes

.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Common settings that generally should always be used with your language specific settings
+
+# Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization
+# http://davidlaing.com/2012/09/19/customise-your-gitattributes-to-become-a-git-ninja/
+* text=auto
+
+#
+# The above will handle all files NOT found below
+#
+
+# Documents
+*.doc	 diff=astextplain
+*.DOC	 diff=astextplain
+*.docx diff=astextplain
+*.DOCX diff=astextplain
+*.dot  diff=astextplain
+*.DOT  diff=astextplain
+*.pdf  diff=astextplain
+*.PDF	 diff=astextplain
+*.rtf	 diff=astextplain
+*.RTF	 diff=astextplain
+*.md text
+*.tex text
+*.adoc text
+*.textile text
+*.mustache text
+*.csv text
+*.tab text
+*.tsv text
+*.sql text
+
+# Graphics
+*.png binary
+*.jpg binary
+*.jpeg binary
+*.gif binary
+*.tif binary
+*.tiff binary
+*.ico binary
+# SVG treated as an asset (binary) by default. If you want to treat it as text,
+# comment-out the following line and uncomment the line after.
+*.svg binary
+#*.svg text
+*.eps binary
+
+#
+# Exclude files from exporting
+#
+
+.gitattributes export-ignore
+.gitignore export-ignore

README.md

@@ -15,14 +15,20 @@ Techie-Thoughts](https://mytechiethoughts.com/<post_address>)
 Please refer to the `readme.md` in each subdirectory for a list and description of
 each included file.
 
+Presently, configurations are included for:
+
+- BASH profiles (including aliases and custom prompt)
+- SSHd (OpenSSH server)
+- timesyncd (systemd-timesyncd configuration)
+
 ## The script file (customize.sh)
 
 The included script file copies all the files in this archive to the proper
-locations on a default Debian Stretch system.  It makes backups of your existing
-files in-place with the extension *.original*.  This simply saves you time and
-possible errors copying the files manually.  The structure of this archive
-exactly mirrors a default Debian installation, so you can use that as a guide if
-you choose not to use the script.
+locations on a **default** Debian Stretch system.  It makes backups of your
+existing files in-place with the extension *.original*.  This simply saves you
+time and possible errors copying the files manually.  The structure of this
+archive exactly mirrors a default Debian installation, so you can use that as a
+guide if you choose not to use the script.
 
 ### Running the script
 
@@ -78,7 +84,7 @@ and will NOT update your actual system!
 
 ## Final thoughts
 
-Hopefully this saves you some time and helps you standard your new system setups
+Hopefully this saves you some time and helps you standardize your new system setups
 with a few useful defaults.  As always, if you have suggestions or want to leave
 feedback for me, please do so on my [blog
 post](https://mytechiethoughts.com/<post_address>) related to this script!