diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e8ea178e54..0eca7a16e9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -31,69 +31,5 @@
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 /coverage.info
 /avversion.h
-/doc/*.1
-/doc/*.3
-/doc/*.html
-/doc/*.pod
-/doc/config.texi
-/doc/avoptions_codec.texi
-/doc/avoptions_format.texi
-/doc/doxy/html/
-/doc/examples/avio_dir_cmd
-/doc/examples/avio_reading
-/doc/examples/decoding_encoding
-/doc/examples/demuxing_decoding
-/doc/examples/extract_mvs
-/doc/examples/filter_audio
-/doc/examples/filtering_audio
-/doc/examples/filtering_video
-/doc/examples/metadata
-/doc/examples/muxing
-/doc/examples/pc-uninstalled
-/doc/examples/remuxing
-/doc/examples/resampling_audio
-/doc/examples/scaling_video
-/doc/examples/transcode_aac
-/doc/examples/transcoding
-/doc/fate.txt
-/doc/print_options
 /lcov/
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-/libavcodec/*_tablegen
-/libavcodec/*_tables.c
-/libavcodec/*_tables.h
-/libavcodec/bsf_list.c
-/libavutil/avconfig.h
-/libavutil/ffversion.h
 /src
-/tests/audiogen
-/tests/audiomatch
-/tests/base64
-/tests/checkasm/checkasm
-/tests/data/
-/tests/pixfmts.mak
-/tests/rotozoom
-/tests/test_copy.ffmeta
-/tests/tiny_psnr
-/tests/tiny_ssim
-/tests/videogen
-/tests/vsynth1/
-/tools/aviocat
-/tools/ffbisect
-/tools/bisect.need
-/tools/crypto_bench
-/tools/cws2fws
-/tools/fourcc2pixfmt
-/tools/ffescape
-/tools/ffeval
-/tools/ffhash
-/tools/graph2dot
-/tools/ismindex
-/tools/pktdumper
-/tools/probetest
-/tools/qt-faststart
-/tools/sidxindex
-/tools/trasher
-/tools/seek_print
-/tools/uncoded_frame
-/tools/zmqsend
diff --git a/doc/.gitignore b/doc/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7628cecb99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/*.1
+/*.3
+/*.html
+/*.pod
+/config.texi
+/avoptions_codec.texi
+/avoptions_format.texi
+/fate.txt
+/print_options
diff --git a/doc/doxy/.gitignore b/doc/doxy/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ac7af2e80e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/doxy/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/html/
diff --git a/doc/examples/.gitignore b/doc/examples/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2fe81f690a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/examples/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
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diff --git a/libavcodec/.gitignore b/libavcodec/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..77a2ab1bd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libavcodec/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/*_tablegen
+/*_tables.c
+/*_tables.h
+/bsf_list.c
diff --git a/libavformat/.gitignore b/libavformat/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cdc24b717f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libavformat/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/protocol_list.c
diff --git a/libavutil/.gitignore b/libavutil/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4dc7466772
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libavutil/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/avconfig.h
+/ffversion.h
diff --git a/tests/.gitignore b/tests/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4766e56945
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/audiogen
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+/pixfmts.mak
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+/tiny_psnr
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diff --git a/tests/checkasm/.gitignore b/tests/checkasm/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ee0e5cfc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/checkasm/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/checkasm
diff --git a/tools/.gitignore b/tools/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c0958f40cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
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+/fourcc2pixfmt
+/ffescape
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+/pktdumper
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+/sidxindex
+/trasher
+/seek_print
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