diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9cc492331
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+.deps
+Makefile
+Makefile.in
+config.sub
+config.guess
+config.log
+config.status
+configure
+aclocal.m4
+autom4te.cache
+depcomp
+install-sh
+missing
diff --git a/man/.gitignore b/man/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f7e585b87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.1
diff --git a/src/Include/.gitignore b/src/Include/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e76f66334
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Include/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+config.h
+config.h.*
+stamp-h1
+version.h