diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index cd86e34cda..aff13e1136 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 /feeds
 /feeds.conf
 /files
+/overlay
 /package/feeds
 /package/openwrt-packages
 key-build*