diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3738dbca3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/projects/unix/_obj*/
+/projects/unix/mupen64plus-video-rice*.so
diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 8778d6de6..000000000
--- a/.hgignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-syntax: regexp
-
-^projects/unix/_obj/
-^projects/unix/mupen64plus-video-rice.so$