diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c0f6aaa645..306f329d62 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@ text-ui-test/EXPECTED-UNIX.TXT
 
 #test Directory storage
 /src/test/main/java/data
+
+# META-INF from building JAR
+/src/main/java/META-INF