diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+#Files and folders specified here will never be tracked.
+
+data/appearance_full.ban
+data/banlist.bdb
+data/job_full.ban
+data/job_fullnew.bdb
+data/logs/
+data/memo.sav
+data/player_saves/
+tgstation.dmb
+tgstation.dyn.rsc
+tgstation.rsc
\ No newline at end of file