diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3fa8a477..a798a17f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,52 +1,14 @@
-sysdeps/Makefile
-sysdeps/Makefile.in
-sysdeps/*/Makefile
-sysdeps/*/Makefile.in
-sysdeps/*/.deps
-sysdeps/*/.libs
-sysdeps/*/*.o
-sysdeps/*/*.lo
-sysdeps/*/*.la
-src/*/Makefile
-src/*/Makefile.in
-src/*/.deps
-src/Makefile
-src/Makefile.in
-src/daemon/*.o
-src/daemon/.libs
-src/daemon/libgtop_daemon2
-src/daemon/libgtop_server2
-stamp-h1
-po/*.gmo
-po/stamp-it
-po/POTFILES
-po/Makefile.in.in
-po/Makefile.in
-po/Makefile
-missing
-misc/Makefile
-misc/Makefile.in
-m4/
-ltmain.sh
-libtool
-libgtopconfig.h
-libgtop.spec
-libgtop-2.0.pc
-lib/Makefile
-lib/Makefile.in
-lib/.deps
-lib/.libs
-lib/*.o
-lib/*.lo
-lib/*.la
-lib/lib.c
-lib/GTop-2.0.gir
-lib/GTop-2.0.typelib
-INSTALL
+*.a
+*.la
+*.lo
+.deps
+.libs
+*.o
 Makefile
 Makefile.in
 aclocal.m4
 autom4te.cache/
+compile
 config.guess
 config.h
 config.h.in
@@ -54,28 +16,19 @@ config.log
 config.status
 config.sub
 configure
-compile
 depcomp
-doc/Makefile
-doc/Makefile.in
 doc/libgtop2.info
 doc/mdate-sh
-doc/reference/Makefile
-doc/reference/Makefile.in
 doc/reference/html/
 doc/reference/libgtop-decl-list.txt
 doc/reference/libgtop-decl.txt
+doc/reference/*.stamp
 doc/reference/tmpl/
 doc/reference/version.xml
 doc/reference/xml/
 doc/stamp-vti
 doc/texinfo.tex
 doc/version.texi
-examples/.deps/
-examples/.libs/
-examples/*.o
-examples/Makefile
-examples/Makefile.in
 examples/affinity
 examples/df
 examples/first
@@ -89,17 +42,29 @@ examples/procargs
 examples/proclist
 examples/procmap
 examples/second
-examples/smp
 examples/sysdeps
+examples/smp
 examples/timings
 examples/wd
 gtk-doc.make
-include/Makefile
-include/Makefile.in
-include/glibtop/Makefile
-include/glibtop/Makefile.in
+INSTALL
 install-sh
 intltool-extract.in
 intltool-merge.in
 intltool-update.in
-
+lib/GTop-2.0.gir
+libgtop-2.0.pc
+lib/GTop-2.0.typelib
+libgtopconfig.h
+libgtop.spec
+lib/lib.c
+libtool
+ltmain.sh
+m4/
+missing
+po/*.gmo
+po/POTFILES
+po/stamp-it
+src/daemon/libgtop_daemon2
+src/daemon/libgtop_server2
+stamp-h1