Images corrupt after git push

I had this issue too - here's a generic .gitattributes that looks generally safe for php web repos that worked for me: https://github.com/Danimoth/gitattributes/blob/master/Web.gitattributes

running git check-attr --all -- path/to/png before and after adding the new gitattributes showed that the image file was originally treated as a text file, and now it's binary (note I had to commit/push the .gitattributes file for it to take effect on remote)

In case the link goes dead:

# These settings are for any web project# Handle line endings automatically for files detected as text# and leave all files detected as binary untouched.# * text=auto# NOTE - originally I had the above line un-commented.  it caused me a lot of grief related to line endings because I was dealing with WordPress plugins and the website changing line endings out if a user modified a plugin through the web interface.  commenting this line out seems to have alleviated the git chaos where simply switching to a branch caused it to believe 500 files were modified.## The above will handle all files NOT found below#### These files are text and should be normalized (Convert crlf => lf)## source code*.php text*.css text*.sass text*.scss text*.less text*.styl text*.js text*.coffee text*.json text*.htm text*.html text*.xml text*.svg text*.txt text*.ini text*.inc text*.pl text*.rb text*.py text*.scm text*.sql text*.sh text*.bat text# templates*.ejs text*.hbt text*.jade text*.haml text*.hbs text*.dot text*.tmpl text*.phtml text# server config.htaccess text# git config.gitattributes text.gitignore text.gitconfig text# code analysis config.jshintrc text.jscsrc text.jshintignore text.csslintrc text# misc config*.yaml text*.yml text.editorconfig text# build config*.npmignore text*.bowerrc text# HerokuProcfile text.slugignore text# Documentation*.md textLICENSE textAUTHORS text### These files are binary and should be left untouched## (binary is a macro for -text -diff)*.png binary*.jpg binary*.jpeg binary*.gif binary*.ico binary*.mov binary*.mp4 binary*.mp3 binary*.flv binary*.fla binary*.swf binary*.gz binary*.zip binary*.7z binary*.ttf binary*.eot binary*.woff binary*.pyc binary*.pdf binary