diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.gitignore
similarity index 55%
rename from .cvsignore
rename to .gitignore
index 26497af93d67319fc8d5a3f7e4c159356cdaa972..21c6cd392c0dea68db16669ebab61d96077ffafc 100644
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
+*~
 test-oop
-confdefs.h
+*.pc
+# autoconf related
+configure
 aclocal.m4
+autom4te.cache
+# automake related
 Makefile.in
-config.h.in
-configure
-ltconfig
-ltmain.sh
-missing
+compile
 config.guess
 config.sub
-*.pc
+depcomp
+ltmain.sh
+missing