diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f8cecb9c4..76861bb04 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ benchmark/**/*.dat
 benchmark/*.pdf
 benchmark/*.png
 bin
-build
+/build
 doc/api
 doc/capi
 compile_commands.json