diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 827dba27de50e3170af7b5b3b92e05759141bf65..e1d23a1d52e7ad6bb8bd64f71063c07bec54a642 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ make_output.txt
 tests/population/scaling/scaling_plots/*
 tests/population/scaling/scaling_results/*
 tests/json*
-docs/build/*
 lib/
 bin/
 obj/