diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..63a5419b73028e7ec1c0bc917ddc7946174527f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+geometry
+input
+parameters
diff --git a/external/.gitignore b/external/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e92e649953c8e312036737f561d4b637f09f8b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+DataTree
+DataTreeQA
+KFParticle
+NicaFemto
+Vc
+cppzmq
+flib_dpb/flib_dpb
+flib_dpb_20
+ipc/ipc
+ipc_legacy/ipc
+jsroot
+spadic/spadic
+