diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fa03b281..3ba1bb16 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
 .vs
-*.opendb
-*.db
-*.vcxproj.user
-x64
-Release
-Debug
 _build
 _compiler
 tools/*
@@ -36,7 +30,6 @@ profiler/build/win32/Tracy.aps
 extra/vswhere.exe
 extra/tracy-build
 .cache
-build
 compile_commands.json
 profiler/build/wasm/Tracy-release.*
 profiler/build/wasm/Tracy-debug.*
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 3ba5dc29..358266c0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ include(cmake/version.cmake)
 
 project(Tracy LANGUAGES CXX VERSION ${TRACY_VERSION_STRING})
 
+file(GENERATE OUTPUT .gitignore CONTENT "*")
+
 if(${BUILD_SHARED_LIBS})
 	set(DEFAULT_STATIC OFF)
 else()
diff --git a/cmake/config.cmake b/cmake/config.cmake
index cff24a58..d32ee9f1 100644
--- a/cmake/config.cmake
+++ b/cmake/config.cmake
@@ -52,3 +52,5 @@ if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "Clang")
         set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -fno-eliminate-unused-debug-types")
     endif()
 endif()
+
+file(GENERATE OUTPUT .gitignore CONTENT "*")
diff --git a/test/CMakeLists.txt b/test/CMakeLists.txt
index b94f537f..98f1386a 100644
--- a/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ project(
   LANGUAGES C CXX
   VERSION ${TRACY_VERSION_STRING})
 
+file(GENERATE OUTPUT .gitignore CONTENT "*")
+
 # a bit weird but works: include the client cmake config coming from top-level
 # cmake needs us to specify the build subfolder -> client/ this way we can
 # simply link the test executable against TracyClient