diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ff4ecb91b..d78dfe7b2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,22 +1,17 @@
-/.hpc
+.*
 _*
 [0-9]*
-*.aes
 bin/*
 cabal-dev*
-.cabal-sandbox/
 cabal.sandbox.config
 /config
 */dist/
 *.dyn_hi
 *.dyn_o
-.ghci*
-.haddockprologue
 *.hi
 hledger-web/static/tmp/
 hledger-web/yesod-devel/
 log
-.local.mk
 /messages
 *.o
 old
@@ -32,7 +27,4 @@ tt.*
 ttt.*
 tttt.*
 ttttt.*
-.stack-work
-.idea
-.project
 profs/*