diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0b892f7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/projects/unix/_obj*/
+/projects/unix/libmupen64plus*.so*
diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 16f7c94f..00000000
--- a/.hgignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-syntax: regexp
-
-^projects/unix/_obj/
-^projects/unix/libmupen64plus.so.2$
-^projects/unix/libmupen64plus.so.2.0.0$