diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1618712ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#
+# Kbuild ignores
+#
+.*
+*.o
+*.o.*
+*.a
+*.s
+
+#
+# Never ignore these
+#
+!.gitignore
+
+#
+# Normal output
+#
+/busybox
+/busybox_unstripped*
+
+#
+# Backups / patches
+#
+*~
+*.orig
+*.rej
+/*.patch
diff --git a/applets/.gitignore b/applets/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cc932fcc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applets/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/applet_tables
+/usage
diff --git a/docs/.gitignore b/docs/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9d1b7c227
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/BusyBox.1
+/BusyBox.html
+/BusyBox.txt
+/busybox.pod
diff --git a/include/.gitignore b/include/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f0ce546cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+/config
+
+/applet_tables.h
+/autoconf.h
+/bbconfigopts.h
+/usage_compressed.h
diff --git a/scripts/basic/.gitignore b/scripts/basic/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d91e941a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/basic/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+hash
+fixdep
+docproc
+split-include
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/.gitignore b/scripts/kconfig/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b49584c93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#
+# Generated files
+#
+config*
+lex.*.c
+*.tab.c
+*.tab.h
+zconf.hash.c
+*.moc
+lkc_defs.h
+
+#
+# configuration programs
+#
+conf
+mconf
+qconf
+gconf
+kxgettext
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/.gitignore b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90b08ff02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#
+# Generated files
+#
+lxdialog