diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index ddb318e..0000000
--- a/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-*.pyc
-*egg*
-.DS_Store
-.Python
-.cache/
-.python-version
-.tox*
-bin/
-build/*
-include/
-lib/
-pip-selfcheck.json