diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b005e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/projects/unix/_obj*/
+/projects/unix/mupen64plus-input-sdl*.so
diff --git a/.hgignore b/.hgignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 14ec527..0000000
--- a/.hgignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-syntax: regexp
-
-^projects/unix/_obj/
-^projects/unix/mupen64plus-input-sdl.so$