diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 20819124..b116e54b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ target
 Cargo.lock
 
 /data
+tokenizers/data
 /docs
 
 __pycache__
@@ -16,4 +17,4 @@ pip-wheel-metadata
 /bindings/python/build
 /bindings/python/dist
 
-.vscode
\ No newline at end of file
+.vscode
diff --git a/tokenizers/benches/.gitignore b/tokenizers/benches/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 78caa68e..00000000
--- a/tokenizers/benches/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-*.txt
-*.json