diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..458e769f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+.DS_Store
+*~
+
+.env
+target
diff --git a/tokenizers/.gitignore b/tokenizers/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index ea8c4bf7..00000000
--- a/tokenizers/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/target