diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b12efdf32acbe07669e136c7ae90e62855462e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.o
+gmconvert/gmconvert