diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 349ca8e2f3..6906e02f00 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 #Files mentioned in this file will be ignored by git
 *.tar.gz
 *.tar.gz.asc
+*.tar.bz2
+*.tar.xz
+*.tgz
+*.tbz2
+*.txz
 *~
 .directory