diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 58880cd..0000000
--- a/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-.DS_Store
-examples/mnist/
diff --git a/examples/.gitignore b/examples/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c0b80b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mnist/