diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1603ad354..29f801ccd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
-/build-runv
+*.patch
+*.o
+*.swp
 /kata-runtime
 /data/kata-collect-data.sh
+/cli/coverage.html
+/cli/config-generated.go
+/cli/config/configuration.toml
+/virtcontainers/hack/virtc/virtc
+/virtcontainers/hook/mock/hook
+/virtcontainers/shim/mock/shim
+/virtcontainers/shim/mock/cc-shim/cc-shim
+/virtcontainers/shim/mock/kata-shim/kata-shim
+/virtcontainers/utils/supportfiles
+/virtcontainers/profile.cov
diff --git a/cli/.gitignore b/cli/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 592311101..000000000
--- a/cli/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-/kata-runtime
-/coverage.html
-/config-generated.go
-/data/kata-collect-data.sh
-/data/kata-collect-data.sh.in
-/data/completions/bash/kata-runtime
-/data/completions/bash/kata-runtime.in
-/config/configuration.toml
diff --git a/virtcontainers/.gitignore b/virtcontainers/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index b1cf56e3e..000000000
--- a/virtcontainers/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-*.patch
-*.o
-*.swp
-/hack/virtc/virtc
-/hook/mock/hook
-/shim/mock/shim
-/shim/mock/cc-shim/cc-shim
-/shim/mock/kata-shim/kata-shim
-/utils/supportfiles
-profile.cov