> DO NOT get it from github or transfer the files via FTP.

I bet the author doesn't know about FTP's ASCII mode, and especially doesn't know that it is the default.

ASCII mode was a nifty feature, but it never should have been the default. Especially when you consider that most text files are small and easy to re-download if you forget, while binary files are often quite large and the damage done by the line ending conversion is close to impossible to repair. Also, if you forget to convert a text file you can trivially do it on the host afterward.