diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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index 00000000..e8399679
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+temp_dirs
+sources_forked/yankring/doc/tags
+sources_non_forked/bufexplorer.zip/doc/tags
+sources_non_forked/tlib/doc/tags