diff --git a/data/tags/.gitignore b/data/tags/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7b6ef9effc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/tags/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+/Makefile.in
+/Makefile
+/gimp-tags-default.xml