diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9bd6f25904..ef738bcf38 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/###Files and folders specified here will never be tracked.
+###Files and folders specified here will never be tracked.
 
 #Ignore everything in datafolder and subdirectories
 /data/**/*